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Living with less for spiritual gain

Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.

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What is air, and how do we know?

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.

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Laughing at disaster

If joking around can help us cope when the worst happens, could comedy be a useful way to connect on climate change?

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Vivekananda’s journey

How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.

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  • Christ preaching before a crowd. Woodcut.
  • Christ preaching to the apostles. Woodcut.
  • John Wesley preaching to native Americans. Engraving.
  • John Wesley preaching outside a church. Engraving.
  • A man preaching to a crowd. Engraving after Raphael.
  • John Wesley preaching in a large church. Engraving, 1823.
  • Saint Francis preaching before Pope Honorius III. Chromolithograph after Giotto.
  • Christ preaching amongst a crowd of people. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A monk preaching in the Colosseum in Rome. Etching by D. Allan.
  • Bishop Hugh Latimer preaching before Edward VI at Westminster. Etching by Terry.
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