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Infertility: Could Community & Prayer Help Cure the Hidden Pain?

With almost 40 contributors from a variety of cultures, the devotional spans the breadth of dynamics at play when you confront infertility.

Boxing Day Blah

After the festive fun of Christmas, Boxing Day can feel a bit blah. It makes me wonder what the first Boxing Day was like.

The Two Basic Human Needs: Bios and Zoë

Maslow once thought our highest need was to fulfil our individual potential; he later revised this, realising we have spiritual needs too.

This Simple Act Can Really Make Your Life Count

Among charities that offer friendship to the elderly, it’s the students, young mums and other volunteers who say they benefit most.

How an Act of Grace Could End Up Saving You

Grace: it’s a radical approach that Jesus spoke into a famous phrase: ‘Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you’.

When Cracks Appear, Check Your Foundations

Our engineer’s advice added a week to our build and significant cost to our budget, but it’s a helpful metaphor for our personal lives, too.

“Go at the Speed of Joy,” He Said. But Could I?

Six words dropped into my mind as if from heaven: “Go at the speed of joy”. I’ve been trying to put them into practice ever since.

It’s Those Who Truly Seek That Find

Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure was so valuable, hundreds left their jobs to search for it, while some even died. Sheridan Voysey reflects.

Why You Should Deface Your Books

Dog ears and margin scribbles in a book is a sure sign of how much the author has made a reader think or imagine, writes Sheridan Voysey

Why Can’t Us Men Tell Each Other How We Feel?

Why is it, in male friendships, that when a mate gets close, all we can do is joke, asks writer Sheridan Voysey.

Are These the 3 Themes of Every Human Journey?

After turning 50, I’ve discovered that my life has been all about the unfurling of just three main themes.

We Don’t Bow to Zeus Anymore, But We’re No Less Religious

Our God is whatever our ‘ultimate concern’ is—the prime thing we try to get meaning and purpose from: be it money, success, family, or a political ideology.

There’s a Word for What I’m Experiencing: Wintering. Maybe You’re Feeling it Too

‘Wintering’ is a word for those times when life turns cold, through crisis or loss, and we find ourselves living at a slower pace to everyone else.

Humility Hasn’t Always Been a Virtue. Here’s How its Meaning Changed

Along with kindness and generosity, humility may be our most-cited quality of a good person. But it hasn’t always been considered a virtue.

Let’s Talk About Identity

Each of us play many roles in life, which each contribute to our identity. But what if you can’t take on the role you always wanted, or lose it?

How to Combat Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories of all kinds are proliferating right now, dividing families and communities, and putting the health of many at risk.

The Breath Prayer

A breath prayer is a simple, short and very helpful in times of busyness and stress as it can be prayed while working or during a short break.

Friends, I Beg You: Stop Passing on Covid Information You’re Not Qualified to Understand

Too many of us are taking on the task of interpreting medical and public health data and procedures we have no knowledge about.