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Why the Great Dock Strike of 1889 still matters for us today
(7 minutes) Jenny Sinclair tells the story of a momentous event when church leaders campaigned with dockers, unions and other allies to help the workers get the fair pay they needed for a decent life.
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On shame, vulnerability and marble jars
(12 minutes) Isaac Withers explains how reading Brené Brown, the story of the garden of Eden, and some ground rules for vulnerability helped him learn that guilt helps but shame doesn’t.
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The opposite of toxic masculinity is…
(9 minutes) Elizabeth Oldfield is grateful for the true manhood of some knights in blue boiler suits.
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Let women be what they are
(7 minutes) It’s time to let women develop their real gifts and not force them into following false models, says Marystella Ramirez Guerra.
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Religious freedom, a risk we must take
(6 minutes) Joshua Gilbert is alarmed by the growth of religious nationalism in the United States.
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The right to education – but for who?
(6 minutes) Education must truly be open to all, argues Julia Wdowin, and not just a way for the favoured to maintain their privileges.
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The Existential Bob Dylan
(10 minutes) Michael Kirke celebrates a modern-day Homer who, guitar in hand, has sung his epic as the great Greek bard did centuries ago with his lyre.
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Start a revolution: tell the truth
(8 minutes) Renouncing the search for truth is to condemn our lives to futility, argues Joseph Evans.
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“Society tells us we can handle everything on our own, and it’s not true”
(7 minutes) Nuria Casas is the author of the book La cicatriz que perdura (The scar that lasts), in which she tells how she managed to overcome an eating disorder. Teresa Aguado Peña heard her story.
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Returning to our hearts
(6 minutes) Pope Francis thinks our age is forgetting about the heart. And he has written a major new document, Dilexit Nos, to remind us of its importance. We offer a few extracts.
