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Jackie Bailey

Jackie Bailey

The Guardian

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Making sense of it Looking for role models among the spiritual leaders of history? Look to the women in their lives

Sometimes I think the entire point of religion is to help men behave more like women. Members of a religious community are supposed to get along with...

21.04.2024 20

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Jackie Bailey

I have worked as a celebrant for years, and yet I still wonder – why do people get married?

I have been married for 14 years and have no plans to update my relationship status. But that doesn’t stop me from wondering – why do people still...

02.03.2024 10

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Jackie Bailey

Making sense of it You don’t have to follow a particular God to say a prayer. The words are all that matters

When we were little, my sister and I said our prayers every night before bedtime. By my teenage years, I had started falling asleep before we had...

11.02.2024 20

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Nicola Jennings on Chris Skidmore quitting Sunak’s unstoppable oil tanker – cartoon

09.01.2024 70

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Making sense of it How do you bring your spiritual self to your job and make sure you are doing more good than harm?

The average person will spend 90,000 hours – about 20% of their waking life – at work. The French philosopher Simone Weil calls work “part of an...

07.01.2024 10

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Dementia has allowed my mum to live in the present. If she can forget, then maybe so can I

My mum has got a lot nicer as she has got older. Growing up, she had an unpredictable temper. I tried not to give her reasons to be mad at me, but she...

27.12.2023 9

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Making sense of it Without religion, Christmas can lose its meaning. Look to history to reclaim it

When I was a kid, I loved midnight mass. I would watch Carols by Candlelight on TV then mum would give us a snack and we would head out into the...

17.12.2023 7

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Making sense of it I’m raising my child to live a spiritual life – I want her to inherit my values, not my rocky relationship with mental health

As someone who has lived with depression on and off since I was a kid, I want my 12-year-old daughter to inherit my values and my fashion sense –...

22.10.2023 10

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The prospect of camping for a week was daunting – until I connected with the strangers around me

“Um, can I have some help?” We have come to a rewilding camp on Yuin country, beyond the reach of mobile networks and plumbing. My child and I...

05.10.2023 3

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