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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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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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Editorial: Time to get serious about time
One of the few positives about the world of lockdown is that people across the globe who were previously time-poor suddenly find themselves time-rich. And just as lottery winners can find their bonanza more a curse than a blessing unless assisted by a money coach to help them manage properly their new found wealth, so it is that our newly discovered abundance of time can leave us confused, anxious even, as we end up squandering this precious resource which we know will never return. That’s where this month’s Adamah comes in. This new edition could be like a “time coach” for us as we navigate the hours without deadlines, the…
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Editorial: Finding Direction in a World Turned Upside-Down
“Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity. These are its sign and note and character.” These words by the American poet Robert Browning were written long before anyone had ever heard of the word “coronavirus”. But they seem to sum up these days (of hope and fear), and offer us a challenge – how to live them well (with love and faith). Adamah was born in a world where people were materially rich but time poor. In just a few short weeks that formula has been reversed. Forced closures of workplaces mean millions now have time on their hands and no real guide as to how to use it.…
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Editorial: Viruses worse than corona
(2 minute read) Viruses are everywhere. Some viruses kill. We need to protect ourselves from viruses. We have a responsibility to each other as members of the same human family …
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Editorial: 7th February 2020
Last week the world was humbled into silence by the memory of the Shoah. With that same spirit of genuine humility, we now present the latest edition of Adamah.
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Editorial: 10th January 2020
Welcome to edition two of Adamah, the new online journal aimed at stimulating thought and reflection on life’s big – and not so big – issues. Christmas has lit up the last month both in expectation and celebration and the feast’s secular cousin, the New Year, is upon us with, ironically, a very Christian call for new resolutions all round. We set out our stall as a publication last month – a vehicle for words to spark interest, open minds and encourage dialogue in a world where words wearing the uniform of vicious soundbites and angry tweets are used all too often to wound and destroy. With that in mind,…
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Editorial: 6th December 2019
Listen, don’t shout. Talk calmly, don’t lecture. Laugh, don’t scream. Call this naively idealistic, if you like, but we’re launching Adamah with a hope, and yes a prayer, that it might just work... Co-founders Joseph Evans and Luke Wilkinson introduce our first edition.
