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• Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: ‘Teeth provided!’ A pessimist’s defence of religion

  By Andrew Brown| Church Times Verified WE MAY have reached peak John Gray: the philosopher’s latest jeremiad, in The New Statesman, contains a sentence that sums up an important strain of his thinking: “Nude sunbathing — one of the fads of the new Nietzscheans — may be tricky in the irradiated dusk of a nuclear winter.”This reminds me of an excellent Northern Irish joke about a Paisleyite preacher who prophesies that there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth”. An elderly lady asks about the people who have lost their teeth.

  By Andrew Brown · Church Times

  Apr. 16, 2025

• When You Lose Weight, Where Does It Actually Go?

  By Ruben Meerman, Andrew Brown, UNSW Sydney| SciTechDaily@ Surprisingly, when you lose weight, you’re literally breathing out fat in the form of carbon dioxide. This process accounts for the vast majority of weight loss, debunking common myths among even health experts about fat transformation. Credit: SciTechDaily.comMost health professionals lack a clear understanding of how body fat is lost, often subscribing to misconceptions like fat converting to energy or muscle.

  By Ruben Meerman, Andrew Brown, UNSW Sydney · SciTechDaily

  Apr. 12, 2025

• Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: What, exactly, is the point of a leader column?

  By Andrew Brown| Church Times Verified ONE way or another, I have written leaders at least once for every broadsheet newspaper in London, except the Financial Times. For younger readers, “broadsheet” was a style of printing newspapers on large sheets of paper, now represented only by the FT and the Telegraph. It was meant to mark out the serious papers from the silly ones, and to distinguish news from entertainment, a link that has been decisively broken by the Telegraph today.

  By Andrew Brown · Church Times

  Apr. 10, 2025

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