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When religious values help fight a virus
(5 minute read) Hajra Rehman explains the core principles of Islam which have helped keep the pandemic under control in Muslim nations.
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Editorial: All change, please!
(5 minute read) Words can be like old friends. You don’t come across them for years and then they pop up, return to prominence and become once more part of your everyday life.
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It’s an ill virus that blows nobody any good
(9 minute read) Richard Bauckham looks back to a Middle Age fair to make sense of the Covid pandemic.
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Word warping in a time of pandemic
(5 minute read) Ronnie Convery finds himself having a grammar meltdown as he ventures out after lockdown.
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Healthy minds and healthy bodies
(4 minute read) Ronnie Convery examines the practical steps we can take to keep our lives in balance, not neglecting mind or matter, as we enter a new version of “normal” after lockdown in many parts of the world.
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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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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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Editorial: Don’t just survive, thrive!
There was a time when survival writing was a rather niche market. If you looked really hard, or asked the bored assistant, bookshops tended to stock a light range of boy scout-esque manuals on what to carry as emergency rations, the joys of Kendal Mint Cake and how to light a fire with sticks. More recently (before the lockdown, of course), if you mentioned the term “survival writing”, you would have found yourself conducted to the shelves containing another genre … generally filed under “self help”, the survival in this case being of a different order: how to survive a divorce, how to survive a bereavement, how to survive redundancy…
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Covid-19: a chance to build bridges between generations
(7 minute read) Lisa Fraser explains how volunteering to buy groceries for an isolated elderly neighbour has changed the way she relates to older people.
