As Edinburgh amends street signs, Christians must own their links to slavery
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George Pitcher2022-09-08T10:46:00
As Edinburgh council apologises for links to slave trade and contextualises street names, George Pitcher makes an impassioned plea for the Church of England to move beyond words, and for all Christians to own the sins of our collective past
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