智慧人生篇 第31期:纸质媒体与电子媒体之争
These well-informed young people had a very modest interest in the print media. Unlike me, they didn't feel their day was incomplete without reading a newspaper.Total newspaper circulation has been declining by roughly a million copies each year. And
智慧人生篇章 第32期:入室行窃的心理创伤
A burglary is often described as being a violation. And it's a good word for it because it's not just about what is physically taken, it's about what is emotionally done to the person being robbed. I had suffered no physical assault, but when I sat d
智慧人生篇章 第33期:死亡不是终点
In a more agnostic culture than the one I grew up with it's a challenge to know how to talk meaningfully about something so enormous when we don't really understand it. There is scepticism about the afterlife these days. But however sceptical people
智慧人生篇章 第34期:无限风光在险峰
Risk is endemic in human affairs. To say to someone I love you or to say in church I believe can never be risk-free undertakings. They are to make investments in things that are not fully under one's control. The other person may not love you back. T
智慧人生篇章 第35期:新生代的烦恼—二战重演
My younger son said something to me the other day that took me completely by surprise and haunts me still. We were sitting in a caf at St Pancras Station, where we occasionally meet when I'm in London, talking about the financial crisis and the unres
智慧人生篇章 第36期:何以解忧?
Each year the serious depression affects 6% of UK adults and 121 million people worldwide. At some time in our lives, one in six of us will experience an episode and the World Health Organisation predicts by 2020 depression will be the largest single
智慧人生篇章 第37期:社会救助
Yesterday the Health Secretary announced his social care reform plan. The reforms have been adopted from an earlier commission which grappled with the soaring cost of residential care. While the State is considering the cost of care for a growing ove
智慧人生篇章 第38期:关爱老人,传递温情
A photo of the Rolling Stones was prominent in the papers yesterday, as they came together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first live performance in 1962. Their faces revealed that they had, to put it politely, aged somewhat. You are old F
智慧人生篇章 第39期:寻“根”究底
The Bible's boring, everyone knows that. Phares begat Esrom and Esrom begat Aram and Aram begat Aminadab. When I was teaching public bible reading in our church, I made the lesson readers practice with a telephone directory, to learn how to make it i
智慧人生篇章 第40期:爱是良药
It was the late 70s and we thought him almost a god, my school friends Helen and Anne and I. An actor-director undergraduate, impossibly tall, dark and drop dead gorgeous, he co-hosted a party every summer for which all the guests had to dress in whi
智慧人生篇章 第41期:你在亵渎神灵吗?
As a boy I'd have been in dead trouble if I'd ever used the name of Jesus as a swear word at home. Blasphemy just wasn't tolerated, even though my parents were non-believers. The boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable language are shifting al
智慧人生篇章 第42期:当斋月撞上奥运会
It is said that faith is both a gift and a task. By Saturday this week most Muslims around the world will have begun observing the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar known as the month of fasting. Between sunrise and sunse
智慧人生篇章 第43期:责任心
One of the features in common between the phone hacking scandal, the various banking scams and the latest row, over the failure of G4S, is that the men at the top claim not to have known what was going on. OK, you can't expect the top person to know
智慧人生篇章 第44期:左手利益,右手道德
It was Bob Diamond, recently of Barclays, who defined business culture as how people behave when no one is watching. Speaking in a lecture sponsored by the Today programme last year, he declared that business corporations like Barclays had to learn h
智慧人生篇章 第45期:女性vs.暴力
I was attending a workshop on women and violence. One told her story. She was 18 and visiting a farm with her boyfriend. Alone together, they had sex even though she didn't want to. Guilt-ridden, humiliated and demeaned, why didn't she report it? Bec
