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Hate In A Time Of Coronavirus
t’s said Covid-19 is a great leveller, but it isn’t really.
Sure, anyone could contract the virus
Infecting One Another With Love
There is nothing to fear except fear itself, said Franklin D Roosevelt.
The War On Truth
On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of AuschwitzWords are sacred. They impart truth,
The Secretive Elite We Should Be Paying Attention To
There is much talk of elites today. The word is loosely
The Trusting Twenties
We need a decade that warms our rapidly cooling relationships
Decades are neatly packaged by advertisers and
The Prophet And The Politician
Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is to change it observed Karl Marx.
It is hard to disagree with this, unless we don’t think
On Being An 89-ER
Some years have the edge on others - and then there is 1989. Where to begin with that?
The collapse of repressive communist rule in eastern
The Dawn Of Illiberal Intervention
If a government is butchering its own people, should other countries use force to stop them?We make instinctive responses to this. For some,
When Consent Cannot Be Given
Safer Internet Day 2019, on February 5, concentrated on the importance of young people giving free and informed consent to their
The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time
God is to be found in the worst places of the world. He is waiting for our prayers to linger with him long after
Opening Up
Giving people the capacity and confidence to share faith is our most pressing challenge. In the middle of a complex argument over Israel’s fate in Romans 10,
Day Of The Dissident
The world was richer by far for two frail, principled lives which ended in July 2017. Irina Ratushinskaya and Liu Xiaobo: born within a year of each other;
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Jesus And The Strongmen
Puffed up by the sycophancy of courtiers, the literature of autocrats is verbose and boring. The contrast with Jesus could not be starker.
The Acid Reflux Economy
The trickle up effect is burning our throats and making us choke in protest. Where is the inherited tradition of Christian protest when we need it?
Laughing In The face Of Terror
The subversive underground tradition of joke telling is not just a brave response to terror, but a profoundly spiritual one
Trolls And Tribulations
When we keep people who are not like us at a distance, they tend to become undifferentiated and dehumanised. We need to remain open to diverse
Is Post-Truth Pre-Fascism?
Lies advance slowly and hypnotically like a gentle incoming tide on a summer’s beach day, but they wipe all traces of the castles we have built in ......
Stranger Danger
When a society no longer believes in a tradition which calls it to love the alien, what exactly guides it?
Drone Kill
A sharply scripted, effortlessly acted film about war's new landscape asks all the right questions for which
The Drifting Boat
The Mediterranean exodus is a complex social and political problem, but it is possible to get a working grasp of what is happening if we want to
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Obama's Covert Wars
Honest, respectful debate is in short supply about the big issues of life; instead we hear the echo of our own sealed cave.
The Deaths Of Others
Who is the neighbour we are called to be attentive to? We are overdue a difficult conversation around this. Without it, we will either get compassion fatigue
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