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To be or not to be: the triumph of Logos or why Hamlet was right all along
(11 minuet read) Can anything really explain everything? Dominic Swords examines a book which thinks it has found the answer.
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Toppling the truth: a monumental matter
(7 minute read) Donal Durrihy takes an alternative view to the prevailing mood on the removal of controversial statues.
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Editorial: Love not hate
Since our last edition, the Black Lives Matter campaign has dominated the headlines and so it couldn’t fail to find its way into Adamah’s pages too. While we genuinely deplore all expressions of racism, and have no doubt that many forms of it continue to exist in our world, we equally deplore the violence and hatred which has accompanied some of the demonstrations, proposed actions and opinions voiced. This is powerfully argued in Joseph Evans’ Love not hatred is the way to end racism, in which the author argues that Christian love, as weak as it might appear to some, is a far stronger opponent to racism than any ideology.…
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A walk down history lane …
(9 minute read) Luca La Monica takes the reader on a fascinating wander down the main street of his home town in Southern Italy.
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“Anthropause”: can lockdown teach us to form a new relationship with creation?
(6 minute read) We can and must learn from these months of forced pause to live with and not against nature, argues Richard Bauckham.
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Reading a building colonially
(8 minute read) They’re pulling down statues, but what about houses? Adam Brocklehurst looks behind the bricks and mortar to discover challenging truths about the culture that crafted some of England’s most iconic buildings.
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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.
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Many Happy Returns
(7 minute read) Marie McCoy recalls the link between happy birthdays and traumatic births and finds good reason to celebrate.
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Hunger: a forgotten first world problem
(5 minute read) Zoë Dukoff-Gordon exposes the hidden scandal of hunger in the world’s wealthiest countries.
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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.
