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Connecting with Culture: Health

Welcome to the Health section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.

House Rules

  • Date:

    27-08-2010

  • Author:

    Ben Care

In a recent 'Connecting with Culture' we looked at the power that we give to our houses to shape the way we live. This week, we explore the flipside of that question: the house as a place of power...

Holy Holidays

  • Date:

    19-06-2010

  • Author:

    Sally Orwin

'And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy...' I am currently visiting my sister and her family, who live just outside the beautiful city of Orleans, in France. Orleans sits on the magnificent River Loire, at the heart of a fertile region. The Loiret was the ancient hunting ground for French monarchs, who over centuries built the chatea...

Life Support

  • Date:

    05-02-2010

  • Author:

    Naomi Carle

'The problem with the God argument', stated Sir Terry Pratchett, concluding his Dimbleby Lecture, 'Shaking Hands with Death', 'is that it only works if you believe in God', thus breezily dismissing the Judeo-Christian contribution to the euthanasia debate...

Echosounder

  • Date:

    20-11-2009

  • Author:

    Brian Draper

I call my work 'Echosounder' because the Spirit helps people to see below the surface of their lives. But this week I had an experience of literal echosounding. My wife is pregnant with our third child, who is now 20 weeks into its little life; and so it was time for a scan...

Age Concern

  • Date:

    24-07-2009

  • Author:

    Nigel Hopper

Last Saturday saw the death of Henry Allingham. Aged 113, he was the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen. Mr Allingham's funeral next week will be a public affair, complete with military honours - a fitting tribute to an old man willing, if necessary, to give his young life in the service of his country.

Sleepless in Suburbia

Death and the Language of Life

Barbie at 50

A Good Childhood

Dignity for the Dying?

Climate Change, Stewardship and Renewal

A Healthy Appetite

Winning and Losing

Take it to the Streets

Discipleship - and the Bill

Heroes in Waiting

Taking Stock

Healthy Living

Time for Change

Better to Burn Out?

A Holiday for the Soul

Coffee Stains

Stranger Danger

Transforming Presence

The Affluenza Epidemic

Suffer the Children

Roots to Happiness

A Convenient Truth

Childhood's End

Eating Out

Is Gambling Fair Game?

The Top-Shelf Campaign

Balancing Work and Life

Red Tuesday

Positive Psychology

Capitalism as if the World Matters

Change One Thing

No Sex Please, We're Teenagers

Reporting the Reporters

Live 8 and the G8

Model Roles?

Tattoos

Sharing God's Planet

The Case of Charlotte Wyatt

Can We Spare the Rod?

Not managing today?

You Are What You Eat

The tyranny of choice

Hungry for attention

Sex Please! We're british

The Best A Man Can Get?

The Pursuit of Happiness

Help the Aged

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