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The friendship of a saint (part 2)
(10 minutes) In this second part of Paul Shrimpton’s exploration of how John Henry Newman practised friendship, he shows that the saint was a true friend to very different people, also in adversity.
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The friendship of a saint (part 1)
(8 minutes) In this article, to be published in two parts over two weeks, Paul Shrimpton looks at the life of the English saint John Henry Newman who taught both by example and word what it means to be a true friend.
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Why work? What my manual labourer father taught me
(5 minutes) A conversation with her father helped Mary Ann Macdonald appreciate that you need to work for deeper motives than money or social prestige.
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Always open: why churches should open their doors
(5 minutes) In a time of crisis and confusion, a church can be a place of refuge from the noise and a source of inspiration. But Phil McCarthy finds too many churches are keeping their doors closed.
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Learning to live in the present
(3 minutes) As the year changes, Katelyn Hannel reflects on her own personal change of decade and what it actually means to ‘live in the present’.
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More than a red dress: learning what love is
(4 minute read) In her second article on love, Nicole Law explains that love must go beyond attraction and desire to truly seek the good of the other.
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Putting love before pleasure
(3 minute read) Modern society has failed to understand what true love is, argues Nicole Law.
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Walking with the dead in Krakow
(4 minute read) Adam Brocklehurst finds the elegant city as disturbing as the nearby death camp and asks himself why.
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Hope: the undervalued virtue
(3 minute read) Nicole Law takes an end of year look at the real meaning of hope.
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Why do we no longer believe in happy endings?
(3 minute read) Contemporary cynicism is killing literature, says Miguel Sepúlveda.
