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I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to suffer.  Hey, I don’t even like being moderately inconvenienced or uncomfortable. How about you?

You know what it’s like when you’re freezing cold. You don’t want to stay that way. In fact, all you can think about is getting warm. And when you’re hot and sweaty, all you want is some cool air and a cold drink. For some peopl...

It’s not at all uncommon to feel, in a sense, untethered in life – as though you’re not where you’re meant to be. Something’s not quite right but it’s this surreal feeling of displacement. Have you ever felt that?

According to the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, there are 44 million refugees in the world today. And that’s just part of a broader displacement cr...

Ideally, life would be fair. Good people would be rewarded for doing good. Bad people would be punished for doing bad. All would be as it should be and that would be that. But … public service announcement!! … life ain’t always fair.  

489 years ago today, William Tyndale was executed for translating the Bible from Latin into English, which was seen by the religious ...

I hope you’ll forgive me for asking you a rather direct question today, but … how generous are you? No, really … how much of what you have and who you are do you give away?

19th century Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie rose from poverty to become one of the richest men in the world. He believed that the wealthy had a moral responsibility to distribute their wea...

Years ago, women had no rights. They were mere chattels tethered to their father and then to their husband. Happily, there have been great advances in women’s rights, with hopefully more to come. And yet, I wonder sometimes whether in some ways, we’ve not quite hit the mark.

Should a woman have the same opportunities as a man? Absolutely. Should she get equal pay for...

Families, the world over, are falling apart. Sure, there are vibrant families too. But increasingly, with the invasion of technology and all that that brings into the home, with the rise of a ‘me-centred’ take on life, it’s little wonder that both the extended and the nuclear family are under siege.

A major contributing factor without doubt is that many men have, for...

The relationship between work and rest is an interesting one. Many work so hard that it drives them into the ground. Others suffer from too little “work” and too much rest, driving them to boredom and loneliness.

Wherever you are on that continuum, striking a happy medium isn’t always easy. When we’re young and working hard, satisfying though that may be, we’re hopin...

None of us likes to be stretched – at least, not too much. We don’t mind a bit of physical, intellectual or emotional stretching, if I can call it that … but not to the point of discomfort. I guess that’s why most people, most of the time, go for the easy option.

I was reading an interesting article recently about cognitive decline. The learned professor was saying t...

One of the saddest of all human conditions is complacency. Each of us is filled with so much potential – different though we all are. But complacency has this nasty habit of robbing us of our potential. Who wants to get to the end of their life wondering … what could have been?

Richard Branson is a household name: An entrepreneur extraordinaire, an adventurer and, by...

It’s a paradox of human relationships that, on the one hand, we yearn for closeness, for love, for intimacy … and yet the closer we are to someone, the more their weaknesses can drive us completely around the twist. Why is that?

Napoleon and Josephine loved one another deeply. But despite their love, his controlling nature and her inability to meet his expectations l...

Do miracles still happen? I mean, when was the last time you experienced something so out of the ordinary, so extraordinary, that you couldn’t call it anything else? Or do some people just have an overactive imagination, using “miracle” to describe something that was just a coincidence? 

Personally I haven’t seen anyone grow a new limb where one had been amputated. N...

Each one of us, at some point – at many points, in fact – faces turmoil in our lives. Things don’t turn out how we’d planned. Or out of the blue, they take a sharp turn for the worse. Not nice, is it?

Over the last few days we’ve been chatting about finding ourselves amidst turmoil, and if I can sum things up it would go something like this: Stuff happens. Worry and ...

Have you ever found yourself hard-pressed – between a rock and a hard place, as some people would say –  waiting on a breakthrough … waiting, waiting, waiting? Will that breakthrough break through in time, or will everything fall apart? I’m sure you’ve been there more than once, as have I. And when things are teetering on the brink, it can seriously make you question God’s timing.

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