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

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 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61期:奥运遗产

Being here in Edinburgh on the opening day of the International Book Festival feels like the perfect place to celebrate words and stories, 在国际图书节开幕的这天，在爱丁堡歌颂语言和小说是再适合不过的了， especially as

智慧人生篇章 第62期:现代奥运会的进步

The original Olympic Games were far from being a meaningless tribute to ancient pagan Gods, Zeus and his many relations. 原奥运会从一个毫无意义的赞扬古代异教的神，宙斯和他的许多关系。 The ancient Greeks can still help u

智慧人生篇章 第64期:山顶的风景 山脚的挑战

It's not easy to knuckle down to the responsibilities of a working week and a wounded world after the excitements of the Olympic experience which has taken us all by surprise. 在令人惊叹的奥运会之后，人们一时间很难从激动的状态中

智慧人生篇章 第65期:人生需要间歇

Whatever happened to the silly season? 今年的新闻饥荒期是怎么回事？ You know, that time of the year when the wisdom of the 1st century poet Horace is adopted by news editors, 新闻饥荒期，众所周知，就是每年记者们对公元

智慧人生篇章 第66期:乐队暴动猫的审判

Tomorrow, the verdict is expected in the highly controversial trial of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, 明天，将判决极具争议的朋克乐队暴动猫的三名成员， who have been jailed for staging what they described as a polit