The modern world, we’re assured, escaped medieval darkness and marched triumphantly into the Enlightenment by torching throne and altar, king and pope. This world is all there is. Faith, it is asserted, survived as a cultural curiosity — useful for weddings and funerals — not a viable option for serious people in the modern world.

I count Charlie Kirk a teacher of words to the youth of the late-modern West. Kirk, who , so far as I understand, had no claim to a university education, was quick of wit and tongue, and was an effective and charming apologist for young conservative values in the present Age of Trump.

Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher and Plato's most formidable student, once said, "We [humans] are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Poor tech habits form vice, whereas mindful tech habits reflect excellence and self-control.

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."

“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?