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Justice is not to be found in the execution chamber
(6 minute read) Melinda Ribnek, who survived a horrific rape and attempted murder, says the execution of her attacker would have been a mistake and a failure.
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Don’t cancel, forgive
(4 minute read) We must choose ‘between forgiveness and condemnation’, says the great French thinker Rémi Brague. Rafael Miner reports.
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Lesbos notebook
(6 minute read) Trisha Thomas joins Pope Francis on a historic - and heart-breaking - encounter with refugees whom the world has forgotten.
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Christmas against the Nazis
(5 minute read) Joseph Evans describes how a Christmas ski trip prepared a heroic group of German students for their later anti-Nazi activism.
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Bringing Christmas to life
(4 minute read) Clare Campbell describes how one school puts the Christmas message into action … to powerful effect.
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Rehabilitating kindness
(5 minute read) It’s time to reclaim a forgotten virtue, says Edmund Adamus.
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Who are you? And why it matters!
(4 minute read) Monica Sharp offers an insight into identity - as an American in Italy she feels we all need to be citizens of the world.
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Taking the temperature of COP26
(4 minute read) Martin Poulsom of the University of Roehampton in London draws on the Christian tradition to offer a verdict on the recent UN conference and the climate emergency.
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The life and death of a good man
(4 minute read) Lessons of love are to be found scattered around the memory of slain British parliamentarian David Amess, writes Ronnie Convery.
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“I think the way governments around the world dealt with the pandemic led young people to get more interested in politics”
(5 minute read) 19 year old Neo Kalungu-Banda reflects on the last 18 months and explains how young people can grow through their challenges.
