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Crackdown in China: it’s time to end the silence on human rights atrocities
(11 minute read) While the world looks away, atrocities committed by the Chinese Government grow ever-more serious. Benedict Rogers asks readers to confront the horrifying reality of life in modern day China for ethnic and religious minorities.
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The underbelly of undernutrition: notes from the field
(6 minute read) Prakarsh Singh describes his fieldwork in an urban slum for his research into malnutrition in his native India and reports an alarming lack of progress in the battle against hunger and disease.
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#GiveWork, not aid, to the poor: the remarkable legacy of Leila Janah (1982-2020)
(The slow read) Tulika Bahadur describes the brief but extraordinary life of a woman who insisted that the poor should be empowered, not given donations.
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“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.
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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.
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Hunger: a forgotten first world problem
(5 minute read) Zoë Dukoff-Gordon exposes the hidden scandal of hunger in the world’s wealthiest countries.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
