The whole New Age and Self-help movements are geared towards one thing: finding and keeping inner peace. What these movements miss is that the prerequisite for peace with ourselves is peace with God – the external, objective, personal, creator God. Any religion or philosophy that says we can have peace with ‘God’, the ‘Universe’, ‘Humankind’ or whatever simply by accepting who we are and being kind to other people is rooted in Humanism, a belief that all that we need to live a successful life may be found within. But what happens when we look inside and do not find those resources? Then maybe it’s time to look somewhere else. Continue reading ‘Give me some peace!’
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Fight the flab, beat the bulge and count the calories. We’ve all heard the mantras of the weight-loss brigade and I can bet nearly every one of us could quote our height, weight and body mass index without giving it much thought. For example, I’m … no, I’ll reveal that little secret later.
But in recent years our weight, and our right to choose whether or not to change it, has stopped being a private issue and has moved into the realm of public policy. With headlines screaming: ‘Obesity could bankrupt the NHS’[1], the government and health authorities are working overtime to change the nation’s waistline.
Image courtesy of didbygraham Continue reading ‘The Politics of Fat’
‘Mr Mum’ has finally come out of the broom closet and doesn’t give two hoots what you think of him. And neither, for that matter, does his wife. Once the butt of jokes, the stay-at-home dad is an increasingly common feature of British life with seven out of ten fathers saying they would be happy to look after baby if given the choice (YouGov survey for Mothercare, January 2004). Continue reading ‘Home Dads’
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