Guest blog by Bruna Kadlez, Associate Fellow of St Ethelburga’s In the middle of 2012, the battles and bombs reached Aleppo, once Syria´s second largest city and the country´s economic centre. In that time, Myria Toukmaji was a senior student of Fine Arts at the University of Aleppo and a…

Guest blog by Associate Fellow Edward Thacker Spiritual ecology is knowing that we are all part of one living, spiritual being. It is the knowing of the connection of our soul and the soul of the world, the understanding that our fate is entwined with the fate of life on…

Bhai Sahib Dr. Mohinder Singh writes about the power of young people to shake up the status quo, and the need for intergenerational solidarity…. The younger generation are a beacon for the future.  Not only can they envision a better world; they have the power to change the world.  Sometimes,…

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is the head of the 900-year-old Karma Kagyu Lineage and guide to millions of Buddhists around the world. Currently 33 years old, the Karmapa made a dramatic escape from Tibet in the year 2000. Travelling the world, the Karmapa teaches traditional…

Guest blog by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee…….. Climate emergency is confronting us with the accelerating effects of our materialistic culture: extreme droughts, storms, and fires, and not just oceans filling with plastic, but micro-plastics polluting the air. And the voices of young people are demanding action, as Greta Thunberg’s school strike goes…