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Learning Out
- Money, success and power are the hackneyed trinity of modern corporate life but they permit no room for other considerations like well-being and relationships. It was inevitable that Sheryl Sandberg’s book: Lean In: Women,
The Middle
- Extroverts and introverts together give groups balance and harmony. Why then does the western world increasingly favour one type over the other? In today’s debate about identity and the many forms it may take,
The Egyption Square
- The majestic themes of history must now take account of the personal cost of political change. Among the drama of that year’s democratic revolutions, few images were as arresting as that of Nicolae Ceausescu
The Brutality Of Evil
- Can we make sense out of the senselessness of human cruelty? The film-makers of Hannah Arendt (2013) are to be congratulated for making such an arresting movie out of impenetrable material. Arendt, a distinguished ....
Risk Intelligence
- Faith is not an insurance policy whose terms we are unclear about until we need to consult it; it is the heartbeat of a life passionately lived for God. A strange dichotomy is in play in our management of risk.
The New Salvation By Works
- While there is much to admire in a generation that wants to get things done,there are some things we need to unlearn if we are to have a healthy sense of what it means to be a child of God
The Rule Of The Few
- The self-emptying of Christ should be our common pattern for leadership rather than the self-enrichment we see emerging today.
There is a central dilemma to power: the nearer we get to it,
The Road Not Travelled
- IWe all possess a portfolio of relationships, employment and interests which looked like they might capture our future but did not. Some reflection on the role of God in this helps us at the next moment of loss.