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Honouring the world’s desaparecidos
(8 minutes) Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso describes her lifework campaigning for ‘desaparecidos’, people who have been forcibly taken and ‘disappeared’ by those in power, and supporting their families.
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Why the best love is unequal
(10 minutes) Families, and economies, work better when we’re prepared to love more. Elizabeth Oldfield explains.
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Education is a life. Or, Sneaky ways to get your kids learning
(8 minutes) Kerri Christopher offers some ploys to ‘trick’ children into reading and other forms of learning.
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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 art of connection: navigating friendship in the 21st century
(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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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.
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Learning death: the importance of connection
(5 minutes) Jenny Sinclair describes how her mother’s efforts to support her dying husband, Jenny’s father, taught her how relationships with each other and with God make it easier to face the natural reality of death. And also about the meaning of life.
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The cost of pornography
(5 minutes) It is estimated that the pornography industry generates three thousand dollars per second in income. But the real cost is how it is destroying people’s lives, believes Lucía Martínez Alcalde.
