Our Health
A spiritual and cultural movement for health and wellbeing.
‘I do not see the way, but with others to walk it with me I can make a path. I do not possess the truth, but with others to witness to what they know I will be able to discern what is right. I cannot master all skills, but with others who will lend their accomplishments I can… Read More
Will the proteins in a young person’s blood partially reverse dementia in an older person? Research on mice has implied this possibility. However, with ethical dilemmas and the risk of unintended side effects, the prospects are uncertain. Such is the demand to improve the conditions under which we age that all sorts of novel therapies… Read More
Pope Francis has impressed most people around the world with his integrity and worldly realism. I was particularly inspired by some of his thinking in the 2013 document, ‘Evangelii Gaudium’: ‘To go out of ourselves and join with others is healthy for us’. These words emboldened my shaping of the tag-line for Our Health: ‘pursue… Read More
New York in the 1920s was a tough place to grow up, especially if you were the son of Jewish émigrés from Russia. Amidst poverty, anti-Semitism and inter-ethnic violence, the young Abraham Maslow struggled to come to terms with his life. Perhaps he was depressed. Certainly he was a sensitive soul. We would not be… Read More
At the heart of being persons together is the experience of family. We often hear it said that ‘blood is thicker than water’. This suggests that our identity and ultimate loyalties tend towards familial relationships. Who we are is highly influenced by the family we are a born into whether for good or ill. Indeed,… Read More
