智慧人生篇章 第76期:悲痛过后是什么?

Certain appalling events in history stay with us in the form of particular images 某些可怕的历史事件陪伴我们的是特定的图片， and in the case of the Hillsborough disaster the image that sticks in my mind is that of fans being pull

智慧人生篇章 第77期:学会放手

Must all good things really come to an end? 天下真的没有不散的宴席？ This weekend we must steel ourselves to say farewell to London 2012, 本周末，我们必须坚定地对伦敦2012告别。 and I think it'd be fair to say that for a l

智慧人生篇章 第15期:教会对时代变化的制肘

As things are, I see two dangers and they are linked. The first is that if the Church is quick to assert and slow to listen, it can give the impression to its own members that moral insight is never to be had outside Christianity and that can be hear

智慧人生篇章 第14期:财富公平

I'm hesitant here to quote anyone from the Bible because recently when I mentioned a saying of Jesus someone objected that he had never run anything in his life. The same's true of St Paul. But writing to the well-off in the city of Corinth about hel

智慧人生篇章 第13期:施受之间

Few of us want to appear dependent: witness the rugged determination of many older people to resist support to which they're entitled; and the intense frustration of some who've spent a lifetime caring for others who now find it painfully difficult t

智慧人生篇章 第12期:同性恋婚姻之争(2)

And of course that's just where the problems lie. Though people on both sides appeal to what is natural, nature unhelpfully supports both sides liking both consistency and variety in gender and sexuality. So most people are male or female, but there

智慧人生篇章 第11期:同性恋婚姻之争(1)

The debate on gay marriage is making me uncomfortable. Columnists tell me breezily that I should welcome it because of equality. Catholic and Anglican Bishops say I should shun it because it undermines one of the fundamental building blocks of societ

智慧人生篇章 第10期:社保困局

But social security carries a risk: the risk that some will abuse the system, taking without giving. It's a risk we seem increasingly unwilling to accept. Attitudes are changing. Yet coming down hard on the unemployed also carries a risk. The risk th

智慧人生篇章 第8期:春回大地

In the front gardens, even in the rain, I notice the first signs of spring and the greyness of winter giving way to small yellow white and purple flowers. Spring is rising in all the animals which include us humans. So we smile good mornings to our n

智慧人生篇章 第7期:同情心

To be compassionate is, if we take the word to bits, to suffer with another, to feel their suffering almost as if it is our own. So someone can work hard to relieve suffering, and be highly skilled in doing so, without thereby exhibiting compassion -

智慧人生篇章 第9期:奴隶制的逆袭

Monsters, unfortunately, sometimes refuse to stay dead. Diseases once eradicated can creep back and strike at the most vulnerable in countries least equipped to deal with them. And slavery itself blights many lives today. It's prohibited, of course,