Category: Columns

  1. Radical forgiveness

    Radical forgiveness

    January 18, 2025 News of a ceasefire breakthrough in Gaza was greeted with celebrations in the streets this week, yet tempered by awareness that lasting peace…

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  2. A New Year’s Resolution: Reclaiming the Gift of Being Wrong

    Sometimes heaven is just a new pair of glasses. Father Ed Dowling, advisor to the Founder of AA Here’s a new, New Year’s Resolution: This next…

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  3. A Pivotal Post-Election Decision: ‘Me the People’ or ‘We the People’

    Democracy is on the ballot! This mantra is a non-stop dose of fear served white-hot by presidential candidates and their advocates on both sides in this…

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  4. Animal welfare and its role in sustainability

    Three papers by Donald M. Broom emphasise that, where animals are farmed or otherwise affected by production, their welfare can be scientifically assessed, and that welfare…

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  5. Inside Companies: The current situation with Digital Learning or Virtual Learning

    “L&D Express” podcast hosted by Bert Cherian with guest Michael Fernandes Bert: Hello, everybody. This is Bert Cherian from the L&D Express show. I am delighted…

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  6. Reclaiming the Gift of Hardship

    The Olympics remind us.  The people we most admire are those who have overcome burdens and hardship.  Whether Olympic gymnast Simone Biles early childhood in foster…

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  7. Is Nationalism Gendered?

    The answer to that question requires dissecting what “nationalism” means. Political scientist Benedict Anderson, is popular for, among other things, having defined nationalism which provides a…

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  8. Robot Souls? Programming In Humanity

    For the first time, the UK Government has identified AI as a ‘chronic risk’ in the National Risk Register. Recently, a spate of experts has come…

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  9. Are our Relationships, even in our Local Communities, coming Apart?

    College sports has jumped the shark Aggie coach bolting for rival Texas is emblematic. By Robert Hall Dallas Morning News July 6, 2024 Jim Schlossnagle, center,…

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  10. The Wise Leader

    One of the botherations of being a publisher is how much dross – at least in my valuation, at the moment of reading the material! – …

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