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As the definitive guide to beards & religion is published a reminder of when Rowan Williams won Beard of the Year

In Uncategorized on August 7, 2019 by kmflett

Beard Liberation Front

8th August

The Beard Liberation Front has welcomed the publication today of a new and possibly definitive guide on beards and religion, Beard Theology by the Church Mouse*

The campaigners say that the modern link between beards and religion in a positive sense is not new however. The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams shared the Beard of the Year 2008 accolade with singer Tom Jones:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tom-jones-rowan-williams-tie-2136946

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, of course as Giles Fraser underlined on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day this week beards and religion can be a controversial subject but as the new book by the Church Mouse shows there is much of positive interest in the relationship too

*https://www.waterstones.com/book/beard-theology/the-church-mouse/dave-walker/9781529318630

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