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Sweden’s liberal parents ‘spoil children rotten’
Sweden’s liberal parents ‘spoil children rotten’ Date November 3, 2013 Richard Orange Illustration: Matt Golding. Sweden’s liberal approach to raising children has bred a nation of ill-mannered brats, a leading expert has warned in a book that calls on parents to regain control of their families. In How Children Took Power, prominent psychiatrist David Eberhard says […]
Get Your Money Working for You
Get your money working for you Date November 6, 2013 David Potts Printing Us dollars Psst ¢â‚¬ ¦ here are some get-rich schemes guaranteed to work without a Gold Coast unit, a goldminer or a Nigerian bank transfer in sight. Promise. Anyway, they’re all gleaned from financial advisers who say for starters you must pay yourself […]
Balanced diet: 7-a-day
Seven simple ways to get your seven-a-day From melted onions to ripe tomato dressings and kale in your pesto, here are some great tips to painlessly up your fruit and veg intake Tuck in ¢â‚¬ ¦ you’ve a lot to get through. Photograph: Salem Krieger/Corbis Rosie Sykes Thursday 3 April 2014 The latest missive on diet, brought […]
The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong
Bill McKibben: “The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong.” The following article came to my attention while viewing Bill Moyer’s interview with New York Times conservative columnist, Ross Douthat. http://billmoyers.com/segment/ross-douthat-on-modern-christian-heretics/ *** Excerpt: “Therein is the paradox. America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.” […]
Science vs the Bible: Reasons Why This Debate Will Never Be Settled
by PETER HAN Thursday | Apr 3 2014 On March 17 (2014), scientists announced new findings consistent with the Big Bang Theory. Gravitational waves dating back to instants after the universe came into being, 13.7 billion years ago, were detected by telescope. Regardless of mounting empirical evidence calling into question the account of creation described […]
Is Belief a Jewish Notion?
Is Belief a Jewish Notion? By GARY GUTTING March 30, 2014 This is the fourth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Howard Wettstein, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of ¢â‚¬Å“The Significance of Religious Experience. ¢â‚¬ Gary […]
A state that entrenches racism – legislating against it?
We shouldn ¢â‚¬â„¢t look to a state that entrenches racism to legislate against it Some of us who have spent years fighting discrimination also feel uncomfortable with laws which hinder free speech ¢â‚¬“ which is why I cautiously support the government’s move to amend 18C ‘The government has a wilful blindness to the profound power disparity […]
Internet porn worries kids…
Online porn and kids: It worries one in three most Date November 10, 2013 Cosima Marriner Sun-Herald senior writer Almost one in three children say pornography is what bothers them most on the internet, with young children the most likely to be troubled by sexual images online. The online survey found children were most likely […]
Air pollution kills 7 million a year…
The ¢â‚¬ËœSingle Largest Environmental Health Risk ¢â‚¬â„¢ Is Causing 1 in 8 Deaths Worldwide Steven Hsieh on March 25, 2014 A woman wears a mask as she walks under smog in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) Air pollution killed 7 million people worldwide in 2012, about one-in-eight of all deaths, according to new estimates released Tuesday by the […]
Confession must be subject to mandatory reporting
March 26, 2014 Bryan Keon-Cohen, Joseph Poznanski The absolute confidentiality of the Catholic Church’s confessional puts vulnerable children at risk. Illustration: Andrew Dyson. While the Catholic Church appears willing to accept the Victorian parliamentary committee’s recommendations in its report Betrayal of Trust, the church hierarchy rejects the application of a mandatory reporting regime to the sacrament […]
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