The BBC Reith Lectures return, and this year’s theme is The Four Freedoms. Rowan Williams, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, delivers the second BBC Reith Lecture. He agues that the West has forgotten what freedom of religion really means.
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Madeleine Hart provided a multi-layered response. The article on metaphors for climate change made me think of a few conversations I ve had over the years where I ve tried to explain to someone during a heat wave that climate change is different than weather. Especially during heavy cold winters, people tend to always fall back on the idea that it means there s no climate change. I found using the metaphor of a broken home thermostat to be helpful. It s too cold, it s too hot… if you want your home to be comfortable, you have to fix the broken thermostat. Anyway, it may not be scientific or offer an easy solution, but it did seem to at least help those people move on from climate change isn t happening because it s snowing.
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