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The spiritual, moral and social needs of our youth today Talk given on World Religion Day 17 February 2019 1       Introduction Without proper research available to me, it is difficult to know what are the needs of the youth of today. Therefore my presentation today focuses largely on what I see as spiritual, moral andContinue reading “The spiritual, moral and social needs of our youth today”

Anxiety: stop censoring yourself and learn to lose Olivia Remes, University of Cambridge This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Anxiety disorders are some of the most common mental health problems today. In fact, four out of every 100 people around the world have one, and research my colleagues andContinue reading “Anxiety_stop censoring yourself and learn to lose – Olivia Remes”

Unity in Diversity World Religion Day Sunday 11th February 2018(hosted by George Baha’) I thank you for the invitation to say a few words on the topic: Unity in Diversity. Diversity is a given, and can be found in the whole of creation. Biologists classify organisms into genus, species and family. We, as humans, areContinue reading “Unity in Diversity”

ANTHROPOLOGY From a Christian perspective, the way we view human beings plays a role in how we view mental health. My own roots lie in the Reformed tradition and my views are from a Western cultural perspective. Neither the Reformed tradition nor the Western perspective are homogeneous in thinking – in all traditions and culturesContinue reading “Mental Health Awareness In The Church, Thembalethu, November 2017”

World Religion Day February 2017. Thank you for the invitation to share something from my own religious background about selfless love. Selflessness runs counter to human nature, which is why being selfish is much easier than being selfless. Most of society is very much based on the “everyone for themselves” idea. It seems to haveContinue reading “Selfless love”