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State of the World

You can hide but you can’t run

What do we have to learn from the ‘hikikomori’ of Japan? Could they be showing us that we have taken the current model of life too far?

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  Mission statements and other works of fiction

  What is a mission statement? Does it really mean anything?

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  Justified and Ancient: unearthing the roots of human insecurity

  We live in a highly manipulated, insecure world, where justification of who and what we are is mandatory and normalised.

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  There’s no reality in reality TV

  Does television steer more of your life than you’d care to admit? And is there really any such thing as reality in TV?

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  Complexity

  Does life really have to be so complex?

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  The unspoken pandemic

  There is an unspoken pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of people a year with millions more succumbing to its ill effects.

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  Much ado about.... lockdown

  What if there are some benefits to Lockdown?

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  Feeling like a fake

  Let’s turn imposter syndrome on its head

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  Our worldwide epidemic of loneliness and social isolation

  It is no wonder we have societies around the world feeling lonely when we live a life disconnected to God and to ourselves.

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  No baby is born abusive!

  The beginning is a very good place to start when we have a problem or an issue that needs attention, and the rise of the many abhorrent forms of abuse in the world is definitely one such issue that needs urgent attention.

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  Family Crime

  Home sweet home – how sweet is it? Is family a place of nurturance and love, or a hive of abuse?