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With Christ in Bethlehem through a blizzard, a motel room and a dog
(7 minutes) Monica Sharp describes how, as a child, she and her family once had a little share in the nativity journey of the Holy Family.
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To be or not to be… Should I follow a life of crime (investigation)?
(5 minutes) Yana Laszcziw struggles to discern whether she wants to spend her life in the footsteps of criminality and evil.
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Beauty is priceless
(5 minutes) You cannot put a price on beauty and the truly valuable, argues Catalan philosopher Jaime Nubiola.
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Assisted dying: We need to talk about suicide
(3 minutes) The push to legalise assisted suicide in the United Kingdom has relied largely on euphemisms, argues Dr Jonathan Blackwell. It’s time to call things by their real name.
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Debunking the myth of progress
(8 minutes) Our young people need to hear the great minds of the past if they are not to fall prey to the latest ideologies, argues Toby Lees.
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The surprisingly modern Don Quixote
(5 minutes) Ivor Starkey finds that the 17th Spanish classic still has much to teach us in the high-tech 21st century.
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The wonder of a world beyond our grasp
(6 minutes) The ever-stimulating Catalan professor Jaime Nubiola explores culture, friendship, art and technology, and discovers that the truly philosophical attitude is to rejoice that reality always exceeds our understanding and can be seen from so many different points of view.
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Finding festival: a man who experienced Easter joy every day
(7 minutes) Ben Cribbin discovers happiness, springtime and commitment in the diaries of Brother Roger of Taizé.
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Start a revolution: tell the truth
(8 minutes) Renouncing the search for truth is to condemn our lives to futility, argues Joseph Evans.
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Dare we hope?
(7 minutes) World prospects seem bleak as 2025 begins, but Julia Wdowin still finds reasons for hope.
