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Beyond the headlines: refugees who enrich our countries
(6 minute read) Saher Ali is an atypical refugee. A student at Oxford University, she explores the rich field of refugee experiences and finds flowers that bloom in the mud.
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How simplistic narratives can mislead us: a case study of the Galileo affair
(8 minute read) We need to know how to deal with complexity to avoid falling for false myths about the past, argues Patrick J. Casey.
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Are you called to be an intellectual?
(5 minute read) Jessica Hooten Wilson says, “Be brave! The world needs your inquiring mind.”
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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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The deaf who helped me hear
(3 minute read) The cheerfulness, resilience and faith of four deaf girls led Kevin Murphy to change the direction of his life.
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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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Migrants turned into political weapons
(4 minute read) The suffering of migrants in Poland highlights the horror of human trafficking and its use as a weapon of political destabilisation. Concepción Lozano reports.
