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Issue 21

Sizing up the Cosmos
An Astronomers Quest
Alan Sandage
Editorial
Editorial
Lorna Douglas
Keynote
Compassionate respect for the Sacredness of Life
Lama Yeshe Rinpoche
Children
The Spirit of Gentleness
Umm Hanie Rebler
Reflection
"Please be on the Side of Humanity"
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
Sacred Script
Bahá'i
Sanctity of Life
De-personalising the Unborn
Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue
Honouring the Sanctity of Life through Spirituality, Kinship & Compassion
Shiban Akbar
The Sanctity of Dying
Dinesh Z. Shah
The Presence Within
Nimal Singh
The Tale of Gangotri
Radha Mohan Das
Poem
Thirst
Shiban Akbar
Poem
Some Blues
Rebecca Irvine Bilkau
Faith & Identity
A Christian amongst Buddhists
Jessie Tanner
Insight
Forced Marriage
Mussurut Zia
Language of Art
Kids with Cameras
Life Story
Sustenance will Come
Mubarak Adam
New Book
Ten Thousand Days of Summer
Andrea Willson
Social Cohesion: A Jain Perspective
Aidan Rankin & Atul Keshavji Shah
Beacons of The Light
Marcus Braybrooke
Poem
The Community of Love
Adapted by Susan Denton-Brown
Young Voices
Young Leaders Programme
Matthew Youde
An Interfaith Open Letter
Young Leaders Team
Repairing the World
Zachary Levine
A Transforming Sojourn
Sharon Danisha M.Vaswani
Whoever Saves One Life Saves the World
Matthew Youde
Focus
Facing Death Together
Alison Price / Iffat Rizvi
Workshops
Workshops for Women in Hounslow
Editor's Note
Editor's Note
Heather Wells
Interfaith Initiative
Grasping the Nettle of Faith & Sexuality
Sacred Space
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Rabbi Dr.Abraham Levy OBE
Faith & the Artists
Living Icons
Sylvia Dimitrova / Rebecca Irvine Bilkau

Sizing up the Cosmos
An Astronomers Quest
by Alan Sandage
Spring/Summer 2009

Spring/Summer 2009

Photo: Brenda Whiteman

I find it quite improbable that such order came
out of chaos. There has to be some organizing
principle. God to me is a mystery but is the
explanation for the miracle of existence, why
there is something instead of nothing.

Alan Sandage (winner of the Crawford prize in astronomy) Willford,J.N. March 12 1991

Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomers Quest. New York Times p.B9

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