Exhausted and miserable, I staggered over the finishing line of the third-year cross-country course. Everyone had gone home and forgotten all about me. Naturally, I was never…
The spirit that was displayed by everyone who participated in and witnessed the Olympic and Paralympic Games of London 2012 has been widely celebrated.
It is very difficult to write down mystical experiences. There are no adequate words. Attempting to fit words to ineffable experiences is also emotionally draining. To try to…
When Maximilien Robespierre was challenged to justify the new French Republic’s wars with neighbouring countries, he replied: ‘without war there can be no terror – without…
Teilhard de Chardin called them ‘diminishments’ – in common parlance ‘the disabilities of old age’: stark words for what is (when all’s said and done) a natural process.
In the seventeenth century, particularly after the English civil war, small groups of ‘Seekers’ could be found throughout England. They were people who had become…
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