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In a world of scientific miracles, what does faith have to offer us?
By Robin Dunbar
In 2018, archaeologists moving bodies for reburial from a 19th-century cemetery in Birmingham to make way for the new HS2 station were puzzled to find several that had plates on their laps. Then someone remembered a curious custom from the nearby Welsh Marches – that of the village ‘sin-eater’. A plate of bread and salt would be placed on the deceased’s lap while they were lying in repose. Just before the cof...
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