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When talking about a religion or belief system, please be particularly careful to ensure that any comments are fair and helpful.
(A printable version of this article is available…
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When talking about a religion or belief system, please be particularly careful to ensure that any comments are fair and helpful.
(A printable version of this article is available…
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This is a brief set of notes following a discussion in November 2024.
In recent years, increasingly large areas of our lives depend upon the Internet - either in part, or entirely. It seems inevitable that this trend will continue. Governments and businesses are providing services through the Internet, and offline alternatives are hard to find;…
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On 16 October 2024, the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater presented a Private Members’ Bill to Parliament, the "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-25". The long title states it will “allow adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards and protections, to request and be provided with assistance to end their own life”. The text of the bill was…
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I talk with a lot of people, and - possibly as a consequence - I am asked this question on a fairly regular basis: why don't people join the church? On the basis of no formal research whatsoever, but simply looking back at conversations over the past decade or two, it seems to me that there are three main reasons, all relating to massive cultural changes…
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When talking about a religion or belief system, please be particularly careful to ensure that any comments are fair and helpful.
There is a common assumption in many Western countries that if you are religious, then you 'believe in God', and that your choice of religion…
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This is just a placeholder: a proper article is required here.
But one quick point about the UK National Health Service (NHS): almost everybody agrees that it is in need of radical reform, so let's start to spell out what that reform might look like.
For a start, we need to change the primary aim. The NHS currently aims to deliver…
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Even more than most pages on this site, this is not intended as the 'last word' on the subject. But we do need somewhere to record the most important principles we have learned, to help people make better choices in their lives.
Enjoy the ride: take joy in the here and now, don't wait until you have…
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This is just a stub, a short placeholder piece as a reminder that something more detailed is needed.
Most people recognize honesty as a virtue, but there are several different forms of honesty, each with their own challenges. Most obviously, there is honesty about the external world - "I stole the tarts." But there is also honesty…
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This is the place for contributions about religion and spirituality in general, as opposed to any specific religion or spiritual tradition.