The Origins of Mother’s Day
Have you heard the story of the woman who inspired the creation of the celebration we now know as “Mother’s Day”? Ann Jarvis was...
Los Desaparecidos: Mothers of the Disappeared
Argentina’s “Dirty War”, a campaign between the late 1970s and early ’80s, lasted eight years. The perpetrators’ goal was to rid the country of...
The Surprising Power of Sabbath
Has your week been a stinker? Maybe your work has been filled with relentless deadlines or perhaps your education has been overfilling your brain...
Welcome to the Sex Recession
Less sex? What? Surely not. Like many others I shared this news with, you might be surprised and slightly sceptical to hear this. How...
HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR CREATIVITY EVERY DAY
To survive in a fast-changing world you need to be creative,” says Gerard J Puccio, chairman of the International Center for Studies in Creativity...
should we leave marriage in the past?
It’s a moment I will never forget—the first time I was asked to perform a wedding ceremony for a couple deeply in love. I...
Wake Up and Get Some Sleep
Why do we sleep? Truthfully, we do not know. From a survival perspective, sleep is largely counterproductive. It places us in a state that...
CAN SCIENCE SAVE YOU FROM THE GRAVE?
Imagine a world where technology has advanced to the point that it can reverse or “cure” ageing, a world in which people have merged...
EASTER: ALL THINGS NEW
Spring is a time of renewal and new beginnings and for many cultures around the world, it’s a time to celebrate. From the Christian...
THE LORD’S SUPPER: REMEMBERING CHRIST’S DEATH
Humans have practised rituals for millennia. Ancient cultures on almost every continent performed various rain-making rituals, calling upon the gods to water their crops....
Passive vaping—time we see it like secondhand smoke and stand up...
A medical student of mine recently said he loved the smell of vanilla in the house he shared with friends who vaped. “That’s OK,...
Get Your Brain In Shape
Ever since I can remember, people have been motivated to exercise out of a desire to look good. We know being fit is associated...