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“What matters for our kids is not online connections, but in-person relationships”
(10 minutes) The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community, argues Seth Kaplan.
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Slowing down with St James: what the Camino taught me
(5 minutes) In our second article on the Way of St James, Yana Laszcziw explains how learning to slow down helped her engage with the humanity of others and ask questions about her own life direction.
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Lessons from a chance encounter
(6 minutes) Adam Brocklehurst describes how walking the Way of St James gave him a lesson which changed his life.
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On being your brother’s keeper
(8 minutes) Isaac Withers explains what it’s like to experience Down Syndrome brotherhood and how the book brother. do. you. love. me. gets it.
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Money and marriage: why we mustn’t leave the family in the hands of accountants
(6 minutes) Lewis Lower argues that we need to change how we speak about marriage and family life and resist any temptation to see them in merely economic terms.
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The friendship of a saint (part 2)
(10 minutes) In this second part of Paul Shrimpton’s exploration of how John Henry Newman practised friendship, he shows that the saint was a true friend to very different people, also in adversity.
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The friendship of a saint (part 1)
(8 minutes) In this article, to be published in two parts over two weeks, Paul Shrimpton looks at the life of the English saint John Henry Newman who taught both by example and word what it means to be a true friend.
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(8 minutes) Anthony Stratford draws on ancient wisdom to re-discover how we can form true friendships at a time when it seems ever more difficult to do so.
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A calm approach to migration
(9 minutes) Migration is an issue which provokes strong disagreements and it is rare to find a balanced assessment of both the challenges and opportunities it presents. But in this article Pablo García Ruiz makes a very good attempt.
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Why work? What my manual labourer father taught me
(5 minutes) A conversation with her father helped Mary Ann Macdonald appreciate that you need to work for deeper motives than money or social prestige.
