Tuesday, 16 August 2016

WE NEED RESEARCH INTO THE SPIRITUAL MALAISE OF OUR NATION (Letter to Dom Post, August 17)


“Booze-trackers touted”on the front page, and “Cancer risks from alcohol” on the op ed page (August 16). That’s a fair reflection of the huge concerns around alcohol consumption in today’s society.
 
Research into its effects, and ways of managing its effects, take up many column inches in almost any magazine or newspaper you pick up. It seems to me that what we desperately need is research into the causes of alcohol consumption – in other words, the cause of the spiritual malaise of our nation.
 
Here of course the churches have a role to play, but will the secular media allow their voice to be heard?

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