Essay: A year of ‘blursdays’ – how coronavirus distorted our sense of time in 2020
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK-based psychology lecturer RUTH OGDEN looks at how our perceptions of time changed during this year of the coronavirus pandemic…
Freedom and boredom
I’ve been saying heaps about freedom recently. Let’s make this one personal. PICTURE: Obayda PH/Unsplash. We usually understand freedom to mean doing whatever we want. Now I get to live by that at times during my week. On my days off, I often decide I’m going to do whatever I want! It usually means I end up […]
‘God is boring!’
I was exploring faith one time with some youth when one of them piped up – things had been stirring in him – and said that “God is boring”! (I would have once agreed with him.) What’s more boring – God or cricket? PICTURE: Alessandro Bogliari/Unsplash Before I could answer, one of the others said, “This coming […]