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Friendship across the years
(6 minutes) The United Nations International Day of Older Persons is celebrated globally each year on 1 October. To mark this, Denise Trull narrates the wonderful friendship between the great ant-Nazi hero Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a remarkable elderly woman called Ruth von Kleist-Retzow.
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“I want more than tolerance”
(7 minutes) For Jide Ehizele, just getting along is not good enough. We have to strive to form real communities if we are to overcome what he sees as the great threat to our national life, ‘urban nihilism’.
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Communicating at the core
(4 minutes) Adamah Media is on holiday until September. While we're away, we're sharing some gems from our archives. In this article, Katelyn Hannel opens her toolbox of strategies for keeping relationships healthy and secure.
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Don’t interrupt!
(2 minutes) Adamah Media is on holiday until September. While we're away, we're sharing some gems from our archives. In this article, Andrew Scott examines the golden rule for effective and enriching dialogue—a principle that's easy to state, but devilishly difficult to put into practice.
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How our society came apart and how we can re-weave it
(10 minutes) Jenny Sinclair names the delusion of the ‘unencumbered self’ as the root cause of our society’s crisis but believes it is still possible to remake our national and local communities.
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The Art of Code-switching
(5 minutes) Code-switching is really about moral imagination, says Jide Ehizele.
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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.
