A Decline in Traditional Values In the first three parts, I explained historian Edward Gibbon’s first four reasons why the Roman Empire fell. The first was a decline in art, which revealed the deeper issue of an immoral society that no longer valued the richness of true beauty. The second involved a focus on entertainment […]

The bullet-train pace of technological development in our age has overtaken us, with barely time for a breath. The advent of the smartphone kicked up the pace, but AI’s rapid innovation and adoption have been so fast that there’s been essentially no time to adjust. The COVID-era put millions in a tech-centered world where information, […]

Remember the hero scene from the 90s film Independence Day? Deep in the alien mother ship – having stealthily flown their Trojan Horse inside – the heroes upload the computer virus, disabling the ship, rendering defenseless smaller ships on Earth, wreaking untold carnage, chaos, and catastrophe. Humanity finally had a fighting chance to send its […]

A few months ago, I had the privilege of visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the site of Golgotha and the empty tomb are located in Jerusalem. I did not know what to expect. We followed the Via Dolorosa from the place where Jesus was beaten, through winding streets and past Muslim shops, […]