I realized anew that in the walk of faith we often have to live with conflicting—or perhaps competing—truths.

A new comedy drama, Rhubarb! Rhubarb! by Hugh Steadman Williams, was premièred in a church-based arts centre in London recently. That was appropriate enough: the play is set in the home and family of a Church of England vicar.

Rebuilding after war - and rebuilding relationships - are keys to sustainable development says agriculturalist, Paul Craig

Natasha Davis meets Indians who are determined to empower the underprivilaged

Rebuilding after war - and rebuilding relationships - are keys to sustainable development says agriculturalist, Paul Craig

The state does not interfere as long as law and order do not come under threat. However, this tends to create a situation where ‘communityism’ reigns, and ghettos can develop.

Extremism is a betrayal of Islam’s essence,states Abduljalil Sajid.

The two women, from the US and Sierra Leone, quickly found they had shared concerns. Kamara told White-Baughan about her work with a grassroots community organization in Sierra Leone called Children’s Learning Services (see FAC April-May 2003). ‘She added that the children could not seem to learn due to trauma from the decade of civil war that had just ended,’ says White-Baughan.

‘It grew out of a concern for the climate and times we live in,’ says Upper School Head Todd Huebsch.

‘What has making your bed got to do with surviving plane crashes and meeting prime ministers? Jim Coulter tells Mike Lowe.

At times it was hard to see what difference individuals could make in a country of one billion people, with all its pollution, corruption and poverty. The stories of the people we met did something to challenge this sense of helplessness.

Easter in Russia introduces Mary Lean to the resilience of faith and the power of grandmothers.

‘It is much harder for a senior politician to be corrupt in front of the public’, Laurence Cockcroft said. ‘But on an individual level it depends on how far people take on initiatives to change it.’

Zainab Bawa draws insights from a new Indian book on dialogue and reconciliation between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.

FRANK FIELD has been the MP for Birkenhead for 25 years. The visit of a group of pensioners to his surgery some eight years ago ‘is indelibly etched on my memory’, he writes. ‘Nothing had prepared me for the description of what they were enduring...

The elections underlined the progress we’ve made in a decade.

We were encouraged to pick up and admire spiders and all manner of other creatures and wonder at their diversity rather than scream and stamp on them. How many kids get a similar opportunity today?