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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.
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Ten steps to renew inter-religious relations
(10 minutes) Joseph Evans offers a practical ‘decalogue’ which could help religions engage in positive discussion and action for the good of all concerned.
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Lessons from a chance encounter
(6 minutes) Adam Brocklehurst describes how walking the Way of St James gave him a lesson which changed his life.
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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.
