Social Issues
Learning to disagree without being disagreeable in five steps … or rather in five fingers
(9 minute read)
Italian author and broadcaster Bruno Mastroianni offers a humorous but thoughtful guide to respectful dialogue using an unusual prop – the fingers of his hand.
Lifestyle choices that can be life or death decisions
(6 minute read)
Francesca Omon looks at the ethical conundrums in our attempts to plan for the future in a world of finite resources.
Hunger: a forgotten first world problem
(5 minute read)
Zoë Dukoff-Gordon exposes the hidden scandal of hunger in the world’s wealthiest countries.
Love not hatred is the way to end racism
(7 minute read)
“There is only one race, the race of the children of God.” These words of a great Catholic saint of the 20th century, Josemaria Escriva, nicely capture how we at Adamah view the Black Lives Matter movement, writes Joseph Evans.
Walls, walls everywhere …
(5 minute read)
Ronnie Convery highlights the dangers of public policies which foment populism and favour division, even in the midst of a pandemic.
When the storm clouds gather inside
(11 minute read)
Zoë Dukoff-Gordon reads a book about weather where the storms are more personal than meteorological.
Our Covid response could provide a model to avoid climate crisis
(6 minute read)
Margareth Sembiring looks at the similarities between the current pandemic emergency and the looming climate crisis, and identifies lessons to be learned.
Europe, stop betraying yourself
(3 minute read)
Joe Borg argues that solidarity is a Christian-inspired value which is fundamental to the European Union. Yet in their treatment of migrants some countries are invoking Christianity to betray this value.
Climate change: re-assessing current approaches
(6 minute read)
Margareth Sembiring goes behind the headlines and slogans to identify causes and cures for our current climate woes.
Once upon a time there was an election …
(5 minute read)
Zoë Dukoff-Gordon on politics as story and why the recent UK general election felt so despairing.
