World Tag Archive
“Anthropause”: can lockdown teach us to form a new relationship with creation?
(6 minute read)
We can and must learn from these months of forced pause to live with and not against nature, argues Richard Bauckham.
Learning to disagree without being disagreeable in five steps … or rather in five fingers
(9 minute read)
Italian author and broadcaster Bruno Mastroianni offers a humorous but thoughtful guide to respectful dialogue using an unusual prop – the fingers of his hand.
Lifestyle choices that can be life or death decisions
(6 minute read)
Francesca Omon looks at the ethical conundrums in our attempts to plan for the future in a world of finite resources.
Hunger: a forgotten first world problem
(5 minute read)
Zoë Dukoff-Gordon exposes the hidden scandal of hunger in the world’s wealthiest countries.
Walls, walls everywhere …
(5 minute read)
Ronnie Convery highlights the dangers of public policies which foment populism and favour division, even in the midst of a pandemic.
Whimsy in lockdown: how black bananas can end your isolation blues
(5 minute read)
A query about wood chips took Priscila Moscoso Meiller out of confinement into meaningful contact with others.
For the valleys I sing
(2 minute read)
Leonard Franchi writes a hymn to the life of valley villages, from the Vale of Leven to the Valle del Comino.
The assault of fears and the anchor of hope
(7 minute read)
Margareth Sembiring presents a sobering analysis of what lies ahead, but reveals her own reasons for hope.
When the storm clouds gather inside
(11 minute read)
Zoë Dukoff-Gordon reads a book about weather where the storms are more personal than meteorological.
Our Covid response could provide a model to avoid climate crisis
(6 minute read)
Margareth Sembiring looks at the similarities between the current pandemic emergency and the looming climate crisis, and identifies lessons to be learned.
