Did you know that traditions create hope?

I’ve recently learned that everyone has a 'joy reservoir'.

Laid down in our earliest months, it’s filled by the delight on our parents’ faces. 

Former New Zealand Prime Minister JACINDA ARDERN recently told Yale graduates that the doubt, sensitivity and humility that comes with “imposter syndrome” shouldn't be seen as weaknesses in leadership, but may rather possess “a power of their own.” Power is the key word, for in my view power is what motivates Dame Ardern.

This is a talk about the virtue of courage. What is it? And can it still be found? I have begun by quoting Mary Frank’s discussion of the first two amendments to the U.S. Constitution only to suggest that they possess a logical order and connection, even if that order is perhaps inverse. Let me explain what I mean.

“Challenging power is heresy inside Washington.” Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks.

I well remember my funny preacher Dad telling my brothers and I on a regular basis: “God ‘s not weird but some of His friends are!”

What are GenZ feeling? Why are they nostalgic for a near past and its less than digital objects? 

If we can have compassion on young people, seeing the zombie as a cultural trope symbolising this loss of a loss of soul, of safety, purpose, meaning, direction …. If we can do that, we start afresh to ask, what do our GenZs and kids and grandkids need right now?