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  • 8 Feb 2010
    Women, the sacred and the sartorial

    How can women most powerfully embody their vocational calling when also attending to the care of their own bodies? Courtney Wilder looks at a blog that probes this question in a highly amusing but also pastoral and insightful way.

  • 12 Jun 2009
    Repentant New Yorker will not be punished for removing antiquities

    Though taking artefacts from antiquities site constitutes a severe criminal offence, the Israel Antiquities Authority says it will not prosecute a repentant New Yorker who returned a fragment he had taken from an ancient palace.

  • 29 Apr 2009
    Beyond cultural timidity and moral confusion

    Conformity and concern about image are the enemies of truth, says Jill Segger. Yet they are everywhere in our testosterone-driven culture. Purity of heart enables us to respond to the unconventional or unexpected with integrity, as well as feeding clear-sighted conscience.

  • 27 Dec 2008
    Human solidarity better than 'perfection', says archbishop

    In his Christmas sermon at Llandaff Cathedral, the Anglican Archbishop of Wales has said that the pressure of modern life towards perfection can be humanly oppressive.

  • 24 Nov 2008
    Political capital out of culture spats?

    The political instinct is to react, and sometimes to overreact to cultural blips as well as big issues. Simon Barrow suggests that we might all need to lighten up to regain a deeper sense of perspective.

  • 25 Feb 2008
    Protect our planet's linguistic diversity, say Christian communicators

    The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has called for a concerted international campaign to protect linguistic diversity and to promote multilingualism, as local cultures are threatened by narrow globalism.

  • 21 Nov 2007
    Improve your cultural intelligence: Effective communication

    How does our culture effect the way we communicate? How can we become more sensitive to cultural factors in when in dialogue or working alongside people of different backgrounds?

  • 21 Nov 2007
    Improve your cultural intelligence: Culture and communication

    How does our culture effect the way we communicate? How can we become more sensitive to cultural factors in when in dialogue or working alongside people of different backgrounds?

  • 21 Nov 2007
    Improve your cultural intelligence: What is culture?

    How does our culture effect the way we communicate? How can we become more sensitive to cultural factors in when in dialogue or working alongside people of different backgrounds?

  • 24 Oct 2007
    Japanese church explores the Gospel in indigenous art

    A narrator in Japanese traditional puppet theatre, a composite art form known as Bunraku, has performed a special piece called 'The Gospel in Bunraku at a church in Sapporo, on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido.