Faith
When an atheist professor says religion ‘brings out the best in people’, you should probably listen…
In our world of echo-chambers, it's not often you'll hear people commending something they don't agree with.
Why you should NOT stop looking for the right answer
Right answers can be hard to find, and hard to understand when we find them. But does that mean we should give up altogether?
So I’m going to die
Words you never want to hear a loved one say, let alone say it yourself: I’m going to die.
Why Christmas is stranger than fiction
Truth and legend are often hard to separate, especially at Christmas. But while the legends are full of gooey sentiment, they are actually made far deeper by understanding the truth behind them.
For a moment, the darkness
Some things are better in the dark. The dimming of the lights creates a sense of atmosphere and anticipation, and heightens the emotions associated with a romantic meal or a scary story. Halloween embraces all things dark, but it also points to the light that inevitably follows.
Captive or captivated?
Sometimes the deepest truths are most transparent in fairy tales and fantasy. CS Lewis’ story about two children and a Marsh-wiggle reveals some deep truths about the life we may not even realise we are trapped in but which feels oddly unsatisfactory to us.
What’s it all for?
What is it with our obsession with progress? And why doesn't it seem to make things any better?
An Instascam Christmas
Our carefully curated social media profiles rarely match up with our real lives. So why do we persist in presenting a cropped and edited version of ourselves? And what does this basic longing for acceptance say about us?
A Christmas thought experiment
You start off in a strange place with no memory of how you got there, surrounded by hundreds of people in the same situation. You end up understanding the significance of Christmas. Ready?