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What have big meals got to do with Christmas?
History & The Arts

What have big meals got to do with Christmas?

...communal sharing. So Christmas can cause tensions not only in our ordinary family lives but also in the life of Church communities. Let’s go back a bit. Christmas was added to Christian calendars in the third to fourth century. Maybe that seems odd. Christmas was not accepted in many Christian communities for a long time (and is still rejected by some Churches). Part of...
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...community-based response to social need. a. Social work is easy, and anyone can do it. b. Social work is nothing to do with politics. c. Social work is a practice-based profession. d. Social workers must force people to fit into society. e. Social workers can work with groups as well as with individuals. f. An effective social worker always achieves social justice. g....
Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss

...community It’s not a team that any parent would hope to join. But bereaved fathers joining the Sands United team find a valuable community among others who have gone through a similar experience and understand the impact of their loss. In the research, the Sands United team was often described as a close-knit one. Training nights, charity match games, and social media...
How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...communication now familiar to Trump followers. First, there are the factual inaccuracies – these are asylum seekers not illegal immigrants. Then there is the mode of address – Trump often tweets as if addressing an individual in conversation (“do you believe it?”). This of course helps to create the illusion of intimacy and shared experience. The point is that...
No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals
Health, Sports & Psychology

No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals

...communication hardly ever gave consent as a reason for communicating, or as something that people might need to communicate about. This is even more concerning considering that much sex advice actually gives messages that run counter to treating yourself – and others – consensually. For example, women are encouraged to provide unwanted quickies or forms of sex they...
Telephone bereavement support: does it work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Telephone bereavement support: does it work?

...community and faith-based networks1. We may also find it useful to access some information about how we can take care of ourselves as our grief emerges, and how we can learn to express our feelings for the person no longer with us in body. The remaining 40% may need some additional help in their grief. This can involve peer support groups, individual counselling, access...
Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year

...communication and warfare, all of which makes them enduring symbols of reliability and mobility. Horse years are considered times when action, progress, and ambition come to the forefront. As one popular saying puts it, 马到成功 (mǎ dào chéng gōng) ‘instant success upon the arrival of the horse’ – a phrase still widely used to wish others good fortune and swi...
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...communities of care for older people is grim. For the sector: a soaring level of staff turnover – 25% – with at least 152,000 vacancies; 18% of care settings having to close in 2022; and budgets eroded by inflation (HfT and Care England, 2023). For staff: rushed and unable to give their best; low retention affecting the formation of settled relationships; often low...
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