by Claudia Rieck | Jan 1, 2021 | Spiral Dynamics
My 2020 blog series (starting with Gluttony here) on the seven deadly sins has left me (and perhaps you) with the uncomfortable feeling that the behaviours that were condemnable then and are condemnable now still play a big part in our lives. And maybe you...
by Claudia Rieck | Dec 1, 2020 | christmas
My last blog in a year that has demanded a lot from all of us, after so many references to the deadly sins in life (my 2020 blog series on this starts here:) will for once focus on the beautiful and interesting things in this year. My personal list of the most...
by Claudia Rieck | Nov 1, 2020 | Moral
Maybe when you have been reading my last blogs (the last one was The Pride) you have wondered why I am writing about the seven deadly sins. And maybe you also thought that these are not topics that are relevant to our lives today. But they are, because the reason why...
by Claudia Rieck | Oct 1, 2020 | Hochmut
Now we have already arrived at the last deadly sin. It is interesting to note that this word also contains both a positive and a negative meaning in its German origin. The Old High German “Hohmuot” originally meant “noble mind” in the sense of...
by Claudia Rieck | Sep 1, 2020 | sloth
What do you think, is the sloth a sin? I would have spontaneously said “no”. Because I would have equated sloth with doing nothing – and that is something we need more of. But my research has shown that sloth does not mean “doing nothing”...