The Master and His Emissary Conversations

Let’s start with the obvious. When human beings outsource any physical or cognitive function to other people or to machines, that function may atrophy within themselves. New functions may open up, but at a price. Is the price worth paying? Maybe it is; but let us be...

Better use of analysis and decision making, Inequalities, System thinking and system working, Wider determinants of health and prevention October 2024 Photo by Giu Vicente on Unsplash Making a list of ‘pros and cons’ is the first analytical technique most of us...

26 October 2024, The Tablet One of our most influential thinkers tells Abigail Frymann Rouch that the ever-proliferating crises facing the world can be traced back to society’s loss of a sense of humility and an obsession with hubristic individualism. The psychiatrist...

19 de septiembre de 2024 Integrar ciencia y espiritualidad, el camino del reconocido psiquiatra británico Iain McGilchrist En un mundo dominado por la racionalidad y la lógica, el médico británico sostiene la importancia de recuperar la dimensión de lo espiritual, lo...

Whisper it if you will, but an increasing number of observers are wondering if we are creeping towards some kind of Christian revival. High-profile public figures such as former atheist author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, novelist Paul Kingsnorth, comedian Russell Brand and storyteller Martin Shaw have converted. Articles and podcasts from secular writers and thinkers extolling Christianity’s influence on Western culture, the societal benefits of faith, or a renewed appreciation of the sacred, are becoming a more common sight than those tub-thumping for atheism. . 

Our whole culture has been skewed by a belief that we have achieved a kind of wisdom which never existed in the past; and it’s just something we’ve invented in the last few decades. It’s a quite irrational position to take