智慧人生篇章 第67期:母亲的爱

A few years ago my middle son who was around seven years old at the time, had cycled away from home without telling anyone. 几年前，七岁左右的儿子一声不吭地骑车离开了家。 It was a mild summer evening and there were many childre

智慧人生篇章 第63期:残疾不等于异类

Newspaper obituaries are a useful window onto history and reading accounts of the life of the late politician Alf Morris this week reminded me just how different Britain was 50 years ago before Morris and fellow MP Jack Ashley championed the disabled

智慧人生篇章 第53期:用爱筑起一个家

A former cabinet minister once infamously described the homeless as the people you step over when you're coming out of the opera. As reprehensible a joke as it is, his words are about to be thrown back at him, or rather sung back, by the kind of peop

智慧人生篇章 第46期:奥运通道 通往特权之路?(1)

The London Olympics has given us new vocabulary: ORNs and PRNs. Or as we've been hearing, Olympic Road Network and Paralympic Road Network. And as from today London commuters travelling along the Olympic network will have to beware of the 30 miles of

智慧人生篇章 第48期:爱在悲剧之后(1)

Over the last few days we have seen and been reminded of two massacres. Last weekend Norway remembered the first anniversary of the 77 victims of a bomb and gun shooting. During a brief television clip a young Norwegian man said that this tragedy had

智慧人生篇章 第49期:爱在悲剧之后(2)

You can become more fearful and protective of your lifestyle and your loved ones or you come to terms with the fact that open and tolerant societies will always come with their own risks. These societies flourish because we put our trust in people, i

智慧人生篇章 第50期:奥运拉近你我

On the train yesterday I sat next to a family with some very excited children who were off on holiday. You couldn't help being caught up in their sense of excitement and anticipation. I know just how they feel. I keep wanting to say: Are we there yet

智慧人生篇章 第51期:老年人的照料

J. K. Galbraith once said, Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. He could have been speaking of the decisions we keep putting off about how we pay for future care of the elderly.

智慧人生篇章 第52期:从民族荣誉看奥运

Two weeks ago while at a soccer match in Houston, the woman beside me said she was in London last year and the Olympics will be a mess, or at least that was a polite paraphrase. 两周前，在休斯敦的一场足球赛上，我旁边一位女士说，

智慧人生篇章 第54期:市场经济中的价值观

The government and the Labour Party disagreed yesterday about what sort of enquiry there should be into the Libor scandal, but they both agreed there're needs to be such an enquiry. Something went wrong and it's important to find out why. What intere

智慧人生篇章 第55期:让慈善与爱汇成海

The spirit of the late Sir Jimmy Savile was alive and well in the Savile Hall in Leeds two days ago when personal items were sold to benefit his favourite charities. In a 12-hour sale over 350 items raised ?330,000 for charity. Rolex and Rolls-Royce,

智慧人生篇章 第56期:世界的奥运

When I'm sitting in the Multi-faith Centre at the Athlete's Village I can look around at the diverse representation of humanity I am with. 我坐在运动员村的宗教多元中心，环顾四周，看见了形形色色、各具代表的人。 We ar

智慧人生篇章 第57期:岌岌可危的银行业

The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, the private hospital which was home to 44 peopl

智慧人生篇章 第58期:残疾人的照料

The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, 一个成年女子躺在地板上，她的手腕被

智慧人生篇章 第59期:通往死亡的道路上我们拒绝孤单

Two US companies announced earlier this week that they have shelved the testing of a particular drug. 本周早些时候，两家美国公司宣布他们已放弃对一种药的测试。 It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. 人们

智慧人生篇章 第60期:基督教的禁食运动

Everyone loves a bargain, as those restaurant chains which offer you special all you can eat deals for a fixed price know all too well. In Pakistan a pizza company had been doing a roaring trade during the Muslim month of fasting. Families who were r

智慧人生篇章 第47期:奥运通道 通往特权之路?(2)

The British propensity for non-deference militates against special treatment to anyone, unless of course you're the official underdog. The last shall be first is a biblical theme which could just as easily have been written by a British attitudes and

智慧人生篇章 第16期:信仰是心灵的疗伤圣药

Surely nothing tests the faith of the believer as much as this - the sudden, frightening, violent death of those we love.There have been many attempts to reconcile intellectually such unbearable tragedies with faith in a loving God. They range from t

智慧人生篇章 第17期:酒乃穿肠毒药

In the past, religion's contribution to this debate has been from a moral standpoint about the questions of poor behaviour that are encouraged by the loss of our inhibitions. But the truth is that Christianity has a complex relationship with alcohol,

智慧人生篇章 第18期:逾越节—孩子中心论

The Passover season is well and truly on us.We're preparing our homes for the festival of freedom, with its special foods and elaborate rituals, one of the oldest religious rituals in the world, and one of Judaism's most sacred moments. What's specia