Forced marriage cases reported in Britain jump to record high
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation The number of calls to a specialist British unit tackling forced marriage leapt to a record high last year, with nearly one in five involving a child aged under 16, data released on Friday showed. The Forced Marriage Unit dealt with 1,764 cases in 2018, a jump of 47 per cent on […]
FREEDOM AND ORCHESTRAS
I’ve been suggesting that true freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want, but rather choosing to obey God. To do good! PICTURE: Samuel Sianipar/Unsplash Let me give you another example – the orchestra! If each musician did whatever they want, I can’t imagine that anyone would go along to hear them. It would be a […]
FREEDOM AND FOOTBALL
Rather than freedom being at ability to do “whatever we want”, thinkers like Augustine has posited that real freedom is the ability to choose to do good, to avoid sin – to put it another way – to obey God! PICTURE: Hal Gatewood/Unsplash At first glance this sounds stupid! How can freedom be obeying someone? Then it hit […]
FREEDOM…OR REBELLION?
Freedom is a central value of our Western society. Something few of us would want to give up. Freedom! But what is it exactly and how is it different from rebellion? PICTURE: Jed Villejo/Unsplash. We all think we know what freedom is – being able to say and do whatever we want. But stop and think […]
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