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Losing our fear of an afterlife: the second of five, very short, morning reflections on the philosophy of Epicurus for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Losing our fear of the gods: the first of five, very short, morning reflections on the philosophy of Epicurus for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

“Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure”—letting ‘fellow suffering’ go and encouraging ‘fellow rejoicing’

And would it be so strange a thing, Among the rainy hills of Spring, A veritable god to see In luminous reality?

What are feasts for?—A very brief Epicurean meditation for our church's Wednesday lunch club

Naturae species ratioque—the outward appearance and inner workings of nature

Learning from Boccaccio's humanism — “Umana cosa è aver compassionedegli afflitti" — It is human to have compassion for those in distress

A Third Epicurean Gathering