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Are we becoming unhinged from our cultural foundations, and eroding vital forms of social cohesion? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1610633461769-2DIYVUVV5JSPMYHV66EQ/mick-haupt-BOr_b-vBXmg-unsplash.jpg Home - Prophetic Where is the prophetic voice in current times? Who owns this voice and speaks with authority? The assertions of faith seem to sit uncomfortably alongside those of secular society, with their competing projections and followers. 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Naturalist David Attenborough reminds us that, ‘Nature is our biggest ally and greatest inspiration… the living world will endure’. No matter what we throw at it, despite the huge toll on life and the immeasurable impact on humanity, the Earth has a remarkable resilience and ability to bounce back. In fact, as we will go on to see in the context of geological time, it has a history of recovering its bio-diversity given the opportunity to rewild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1619543313391-EYHEX4CR2P5W1L6PA8VE/martin-sanchez-j2c7yf223Mk-unsplash.jpg Nature - COVID-19 pandemic. During the uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic people have asked how long will this story continue and where is it going? It raises awareness of our vulnerability, mortality, fears and also the resolve of the human spirit to rally for others and to overcome harrowing circumstances. It sits alongside other global challenges beginning to form a 'perfect storm' which will require lifestyles to change, around the emerging circumstances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707324761194-L1YSY6M64D6ADSWTFCBK/image-asset.jpeg Nature - Nature: our biggest ally ‘Nature takes over as soon as people get out of the way’, so part of the challenge is whether humanity can re-envisage and discover a future as part of Nature, rather than apart from it? Naturalist David Attenborough reminds us that, ‘Nature is our biggest ally and greatest inspiration… the living world will endure’. How do we act on the back of this? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707398065754-6MVGLE470ZE1AU68S8DB/image-asset.jpeg Nature - Climate change. 'Till now man has been up against Nature: from now on he will be up against his own nature' (Dennis Gabor, 1963:29). In eary 2024, we have now registered one full year on the planetary dashboard of global temperatures exceeding 1.5 degrees above average. This ushers in a new urgency for our conversations on climate change. Where will they take us? https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/geopolitical/nature/resilience-of-nature daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1619543284211-XD5GA99SEYZE13WSB2YO/jenna-lee-f0OL01IHbCM-unsplash.jpg Nature-resilience-of-nature - Nature can reclaim. Central to the treatise of WG Hoskins (1977) was the fact that nature can reclaim an industrially scarred landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1619545431084-XAOE4AOUL7C17A4EU5PF/james-wainscoat-b7MZ6iGIoSI-unsplash.jpg Nature-resilience-of-nature - Nature is our biggest ally. As naturalist David Attenborough put it, ‘Nature is our biggest ally and greatest inspiration… the living world will endure’. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/geopolitical/nature/covid19pandemic daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1619547289726-4IDTAHWFCLT8LFQZ095O/martin-sanchez-j2c7yf223Mk-unsplash.jpg Nature-covid19-pandemic - A field day for the media. The media have had a field day, both informing and dramatising the situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707327994201-7426J0LBN0575BF5OKNO/image-asset.jpeg Nature-covid19-pandemic - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1619547462596-DWE4DMJ4NY6L29CBG13E/engin-akyurt-_HN4ZNgXH5w-unsplash.jpg Nature-covid19-pandemic - Awareness of our mortality. It raises awareness of our vulnerability, mortality, fears and also the resolve of the human spirit to rally for others https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/geopolitical/leadership daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1664809802665-N91FGSVOUC7OE1R9PKZB/unsplash-image-aASWYaw-3HI.jpg Leadership - A lesson from monarchies. Since time immemorial humanity has organised itself into workable communities and realms, establishing territories and nations through tribal or ethnic hierarchies of power. From the ancient empires of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Central or South America, through the Chinese dynasties of Confucian Emperors, to the ruling powers and republics of Europe, civilisation has developed diverse styles of government. Few have been more influential than the concept of monarchy, involving the rule of a sovereign and ofttimes hereditary Head of State. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707321629345-IP8EUEHDH164N5RAN3P3/image-asset.jpeg Leadership - Qualities for leadership. There are many styles of leadership and even more consultancy courses to help you find and articulate your style. What colour is your hat? How do you communicate with a team? What are your drivers and motivations? What is your personality type? We explore these and more to find the meaning behind the pursuit of “solutions” for leadership. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/geopolitical/progress daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707321898555-A0IBTAHZVT6GU3P8QC8I/image-asset.jpeg Progress - Glocal solutions - a case study. In the 1960s the Holborns owned a Fish ‘n Chip shop in the suburbs of London. Mum, Dad and four children. They worked hard to make ends meet. The business collapsed when a greengrocers next door caught fire and gutted the entire block of shops! Undaunted, but hurting, the family started again, Dad using his retail skills, trying a Burger bar and then founding a Tobacconist & Confectionary shop in 1974, back at their roots. They knew the locals and quickly felt part of the community. Celebrating fifty years in 2024, with two ‘convenience’ stores and a blooming florist’s enterprise, this is their story… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707321816852-HOLMWKRNEZJFA461DPT3/image-asset.jpeg Progress - Resilience. Resilience is a hallmark and Covid-19 proved, beyond doubt, how valuable is the network of a local shop, built around a social conscience. With lockdown, a need for vigilance among the vulnerable, reduced mobility and fear of the unknown at supermarkets, Holborns provided a safe, reliable space, a lifeline to many, when so much was being called into question. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/digital/ai daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707398828340-2OXPNOWM6LNYTHOJY9P7/image-asset.jpeg AI - The AI revolution and dilemma. The technologies of the 21st Century are developing a global economic system, communications and social infrastructures that are the stuff of dreams. The internet has facilitated freedom of speech and exchanges of information across the world, hitherto inconceivable. The scale of engagement is without precedent. Social media platforms compete for the attention of billions around the world (e.g. Facebook, 3 billion active monthly users), whilst Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT, LLaMa, Claude) are promising revolution for business, education, the Arts and beyond. They are not neutral places or products, all dependent on continual financing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707162756443-C997H1WUR3RJH7RC9GDC/image-asset.jpeg AI - AI and ethics. Let’s remember AI is neither artificial nor intelligent. It operates a digested data set, regurgitated with no innate understanding, based on mathematical formulae. Without ethics or conscience, it can produce convincing fabrications and generate its own fabricated sources. Through unintended consequences, the internet risks evolving into a quicksand of deep fake information, half-truths, and clones, to a degree where it is unusable. The authenticity of synthetic media could no longer be trusted or verifiable. Were this to happen, our shared online reality would unravel before our eyes! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707399017142-RIIKP270EC1BG5KRC0FQ/image-asset.jpeg AI - Transhumanism. Where is the future leading us? Transhumanism is a movement that aims to enhance the human condition through science and technology. Transhumanists believe that humans can overcome their limitations and achieve higher levels of longevity, intelligence, and well-being. Transhumanism also explores the ethical and social implications of such radical transformations. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/digital/identity daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707325332646-S4X8IHHZ3JVFEVPAQ2OP/image-asset.jpeg Identity - Identity and immediacy. Neurons that fire together, wire together. Psychologists use this expression to explain many things from addiction to memory, reminding us that neural pathways are like stray footpaths – the more you use them, the more concretised they become. And once concretised, then familiar, preferential, favoured. The path of least resistance. The question is, are we are aware of this? Likely, yes. Yet do we live like we’re aware? Likely not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/76db30ab-1b7c-4f7a-bb58-9a421fe47f27/Gord+C+SIC+book+2-2024.jpg Identity - How Can We Navigate Late Modernity? Cultural nihilism stands as a reductive, depersonalizing, disenchanted contrast to incarnational spiritual culture. The tone of nihilism is depicted clearly by the articulate Eugene Peterson: "We depersonalize God to an idea to be discussed. We reduce people around us to resources to be used. We define ourselves as consumers to be satisfied. The more we do it, the more we incapacitate ourselves from growing up to a maturity capable of living adult lives of love, adoration, trust and sacrifice. In our identity-confused society, too many of us have settled for a pastiche identity composed of social security number, medical records, academic degrees, job history, and whatever fragments of genealogy we can salvage." (Eugene Peterson, Practice Resurrection, 66,79) Samuel G Johns, in ‘Mes Pensées’ (#11), May 2013, echoes the warning about ‘the deeply narrow, reductionist, even flawed view offered by the purely ‘immanent-frame’ of modern society. It places an implacable emphasis on the hic et nunc, the here and now, as well as the material. +[#/.. 3 consequences from Taylor? P35.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707399188349-BXB2I5I4RG8PJSVZBN78/image-asset.jpeg Identity - Personhood. Guy Brandon and others are concerned for how technology is reshaping us. What is all this tech doing to our brains, to our relationships, to our families and friends? Brandon writes – these technologies could ‘compromise our ability to relate by sensitising the mind to distraction [which] undermines our ability to love’ (2016, p.30). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707399355455-FIGR0HH3QFA90U0SC9RW/image-asset.jpeg Identity - The Master and his Emissary. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differences between the brain's left and right hemispheres. He argues that the division of the brain into two hemispheres is essential to human existence, making possible incompatible versions of the world. Read a book review here and more insight on the topic. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/digital/research daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707323941552-VFJZ39E055BRIJ5YHOOI/image-asset.jpeg Research - Research, knowledge, and wisdom. The search for meaning and purpose is a human characteristic, driven by the need to find practical solutions to life’s challenges. A Spanish miner, Jeronimo de Ayanz, when faced with problems of removing water from a flooded mine in Seville in 1606, rallied to the occasion by patenting the first machine to use steam power. Now a relic from the past, it was a game-changer which provided a spring-board for other technologies to follow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707323884339-C3A8S9O9RS2HNUFWXTYW/image-asset.jpeg Research - Scientism and the scientific method. The scientific method is central to identifying what components make up our universe and how things behave and interact, particularly for human advantage. Can such methods answer questions about why the universe is ordered in a way not congruent with the workings of our minds? Or, why is there a restlessness in the human spirit, to find purpose and meaning beyond the here and now? The answer is no. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/cultural/ethics daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707325569043-38QZ2S6O67N3E3B81VDF/image-asset.jpeg Ethics - Understanding the Cross. The cross is one of the most recognisable and influential symbols in human history. It crops up in all walks of life from an X-box or the X of Twitter, to crossroads, crosswords, and crossbows? As a motif adopted in politics, literature, art, music, fashion, architecture and the media, it reflects the diversity and dynamism of human culture. Simply made up of two lines, one placed transversely to the other, its most prolific use has been in religion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707325519204-OBCU08YEADIK21VS8HH0/image-asset.jpeg Ethics - Absolutes in a world of relatives? Absolutes of truth, right and wrong, have been shunned by Enlightenment thinking, replaced with moral relativism and shades of grey. Ethics and values around integrity, selflessness, honesty and respect remain widespread, despite adopting new cultural mores. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/cultural/freedom daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707163299228-JR87HI1B1Y7TPWVBNOG9/image-asset.jpeg Freedom - The universal language of music... ‘Music is the connective tissue among souls’, mused vocalist Barbra Streisand. An essential part of identity & culture, it expresses thoughts, feelings and themes, it captures beauty and is a medium for profound communication. Music is a force which affects all who hear it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707163401534-QC9T9DEM0J6DYBNNON3S/image-asset.jpeg Freedom - The price of freedom? In 1863, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation provided a legal framework for the eradication of slavery and for American civil rights to begin for more than 3.5 million citizens, hitherto in servitude. It was also the seedbed for a new musical movement destined to change the world. Slaves, liberated from the yoke, many unschooled and unable to read or write, had created their own idiom of song: the blues of the fields and plantations; the chants of the docks and warehouses, the chain-gang crews and railroad labourers; the hymns and spirituals of the churches; the hollers and group ‘singalongs’, all released to ease suffering. From the 1880s, this potent fusion of African American and European sources created a kaleidoscope of musical colours; Blues, Country, Jazz, Rock ‘n Roll, Soul, their antecedents and descendants, on which the world still feasts. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/cultural/ideologies daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707325711299-ZN0YGCXZRAB9OT7KLL6A/image-asset.jpeg Ideologies - The Women’s Movement. One of the most fundamental and influential changes of the C20th century was the granting of women’s rights and the advent of feminism. Both are well documented in their chronology, underlying reasons, advocates, achievements, and consequences. In the turbulent years of WW1 and its aftermath, suffrage for women over 30 in Britain and for working class men (previously only eligible to those owning property) ushered in a gradual sea-change from an essentially patriarchal society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707163938236-ECOGNX4ZVSMAQJCLWYBC/image-asset.jpeg Ideologies - The power of feminism. Many definitions of feminism exist - from the critical lens, the radical lens, and other mainstream views. Yet all of them clearly point in the direction of power structures and equity: what could a society without significant power imbalances look like? Read our guest contributor below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707400796645-MT5FGU6QQ03XPB0A9V17/image-asset.jpeg Ideologies - Human cruelty. The Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide are two horrific examples of human cruelty in history. The Holocaust was the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of other victims by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II. The Rwandan genocide was the mass slaughter of about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by extremist Hutus in Rwanda in 1994. Both events show the extreme consequences of hatred, racism, and indifference to human suffering. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/prophetic/worldviews daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707325928024-7O6VEJ26Z3DY52GFRRIA/image-asset.jpeg Worldviews - What is a worldview? The relentless search for meaning and purpose distinguishes humans on this multicultural planet. Will the quest continue for the next 4 billion years or is there a finite narrative unfolding, which has been written into the annals of time? Yet we regularly live - or act out our lives - as if we have no worldview. What is a worldview, and how do we acquire or identify one? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/c938ccb3-654c-4b42-acc4-310b4f70f7c1/alexei-utt-2.png Worldviews - My fear and loathing - part 1 In memory of Alexei Navalny. (4th June 1976 - 16th Feb 2024) August 2023 - Alexei Navalny (47), opposition leader and political prisoner in solitary confinement, expresses his views regarding the Russian political system, elite and wider influencers. Fighting for free elections to enable the transfer of power, an independent judiciary and freedom of speech, he espouses a ‘European path and democratic development’. Aspects of his worldview are clear as he bears his soul in this, his last major post, serialised in 2 parts. He also speaks with a prophetic voice… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1759c783-1fe0-4274-8ec6-338bf4c4d4df/Navalny+floral+tributes+2-24.jpg Worldviews - My fear and loathing - part 2 In memory of Alexei Navalny. (4th June 1976 - 16th Feb 2024) August 2023 - Alexei Navalny (47) received an enhanced prison sentence of 19 years, while in solitary confinement in a Siberian Gulag. Born near Chernobyl, in Ukraine, an ardant Russian nationalist, lawyer and patriot, he became the first politician to canvas using social media. He exposed and campaigned against corruption and sought to dismantle Putin’s unassailable grip on power, espousing a ‘European path and democratic development’. Aspects of his worldview emerge as he bears his soul in this, his last major post, serialised in 2 parts. [Photo by Nikita Pishchugin on Unsplash] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/ac9b3359-efcd-4cf3-84db-5422a5aafa94/Navalny+on+trial+-+heart.jpg Worldviews - Navalny – A modern day Jeremiah? The apparatus of Government created in the Soviet Union, following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, applied the principle that ‘the end justifies the means’. Elimination of effective opposition through State sponsored terror was at its core, carried out by the ‘Cheka’, forerunner to the KGB and FSB. The same principle continues to this day, silencing voices of dissent. Alexei Navalny, former lawyer and leading opposition figure discovered that as he grew in prominence (eg gaining 28% of Moscow’s mayoral vote in 2013), intimidation, spurious accusations, isolation and assassination attempts followed. Consigned to prison, like the prophet Jeremiah who was thrown into a well to die, Navalny used courtroom appearances in 2013 & 2021 to affirm his faith and speak out against the corruption of the Russian State. His words live on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707326040945-99XRQGJOWECF1YM7R8RB/image-asset.jpeg Worldviews - The air we breathe. The Australian Glen Scrivener opens; “Goldfish don’t see water. Goldfish see what’s in the water, they see what’s refracted through the water, but I assume (yes, assume – I haven’t done the proper investigations) that goldfish don’t see the water itself. And yet there it is. It’s their environment. Universal but invisible. It shapes everything they do and everything they see. But they don’t see it” (2022, p.11). Read the book review here. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/prophetic/theology daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707326454904-PPDDARH79S5YZU45I4B2/image-asset.jpeg Theology - Prayer and its power. Prayer, in times of peace and prosperity, is different from that uttered in adversity. One place where even the most committed atheist will pray, is in a ‘foxhole’, exposed on a battlefield. There is something in the human heart and psyche, which reaches out in times of crisis, by-passing intellect and ideology, and entreating a power beyond us. An inner cry, intensely personal, active, and part of a living conversation with our environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707326414554-X89J4HFIG3CYD19ZUK1V/image-asset.jpeg Theology - Spiritual warfare and the world of transcendence. In a secular world, in the grip of an immanent frame, how do we reconnect with a transcendent vision of reality? Spiritual warfare is the struggle between the forces of good and evil in the unseen realm of transcendence. It involves the use of prayer, faith, and the Word of God to resist and overcome the attacks of the enemy. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/prophetic/tension daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707322922454-EAPT3A0P5XCGJGG65DOP/image-asset.jpeg Tension - Multiculturalism and dialogue. “It’ll feel like a foreign country!” was my mother’s comment, when I went to visit her from university, in 1979. She was living in the London Borough of Hounslow at the time, with its 80% ethnic minority population. Having been married and lived in India in her early twenties, she loved the cosmopolitan mix of Asian faces, clothes and shops. The smells, bells, colours and conversations of the High Street transported the beholder to the many countries from which fellow citizens had come, through the nearby access point of Heathrow Airport. I was to spend 6 years in this environment, living in its vibrancy, rubbing shoulders with its diverse cultures and growing to love the closeness of its communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708425190433-KTXBILTJUFSGKRCSJMBE/image-asset.jpeg Tension - Enemies and espionage. Who would have imagined that when a wealthy Argentinian businessman, Kamel Amin Thaabet, made a gift of eucalyptus trees to the Syrian army on the Golan Heights, providing shade for soldiers, he was in fact an Israeli spy working for Mossad. He had infiltrated into the Syrian political and military hierarchy before eventually being uncovered and executed in 1965. Several years later during the Six-Day War those same trees provided the Israelis with markers, identifying the Syrian dug-outs and contributing to them being routed in a matter of days! Enemies are a fact of life, they come from within and without, they are visible and invisible, operating in all domains of life. Whilst further articles will follow, for now, what about spies? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/41124ff2-e3eb-4ac0-999a-b973489dbe74/onur-kurt-M2vLaC_qfBM-unsplash.jpg Tension - When the Rabbis Cry! The present war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is more deadly than a very similar conflict that arose in 2008. Both conflicts inflamed opponents of Israel around the Middle East including Yemen. Attacks against Jews in 2008-2009 in Yemen forced the wholesale evacuation of the Jews to two principal destinations: New York and Tel Aviv. One morning in 2009 I switched on Radio 4’s Today programme and found myself listening to an interview with a few elderly Yemeni rabbis weeping over the loss of their Jewish congregations. It was a moving interview and proved to be the final straw in motivating me to write a book about the Middle East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707323042674-I1ZA6E2ISPQ36DGVRL8Q/image-asset.jpeg Tension - Inter-faith dialogue. In trying to enlarge upon a diverse multi-layered transcendent world there also needs to be a language of ‘taxonomy’. As the plants and animals of the earth are classified into families, genus and species, so a multi-faith context would benefit from classifying deities, by origin, narrative, lineage and covenants. Similarities and distinctives need to be drawn out, if the complexities of inter-faith and inter-disciplinary dialogues are to be grasped ingenuously. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/geopolitical/leadership/leadershipmonarchy daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1705660092595-LPPAMZ0V1WNTBOU4Q638/image-asset.jpeg Leadership-monarchy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1705608739844-HGAITKASQ5PQLL12LDXD/image-asset.jpeg Leadership-monarchy - Give us a king! The demands for future kings would lift the stakes and suffering of people to another level and result in revolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707328433054-1S3OQMTGDWX5ABJDUMJP/image-asset.jpeg Leadership-monarchy - Post WWII. Woodrow Wilson set in motion the advent of the League of Nations and the global organisations which have come to fruition since WW2, including the United Nations, UNESCO, IMF, WHO and NATO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/3d5c9196-f548-4e3e-a8f4-ec7471b02f33/image-asset.jpg Leadership-monarchy - Effective leadership. Effective leadership depends both upon the individual and the framework for governance, in an imperfect and turbulent world. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/gepolitical/progress/glocal daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707323690310-XYPCD6E8BKJEB1AZQOY7/image-asset.jpeg Progress-glocal - Convenience stores. Open on average 14 hours per day (in the UK). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/c7779ef4-0b31-4df8-b096-337d69a4a8d8/utt1.png Progress-glocal - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707328644698-L7SGKOGKMZ904ZWKZ1T2/image-asset.jpeg Progress-glocal - Community cohesion. 80% of UK small store owners are involved in community activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/337af9c1-a90f-4768-8a0a-936eb5233901/utt2.png Progress-glocal - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707846578035-AILN7ER96FPY24TJ46QJ/image-asset.jpeg Progress-glocal - ‘Glocal’ (global/local)… combines the best of two worlds https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/digital/ai/revolution daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707398409869-MP1UF5Z1GOGWN75FJX0U/image-asset.jpeg AI-revolution - Social media and Ai. Competition fuels a race dynamic for market dominance, risking premature deployment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707398761003-XIZUUVAWAL3158RIN39B/image-asset.jpeg AI-revolution - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707398499207-QYHCS7MSYLYNUUH9DJPT/image-asset.jpeg AI-revolution - The internet. Social media and AI applications have already engineered deep fractures in social order, including the manipulation of public dialogue, the disruption of democracy and surveillance issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707398572460-DJCP6WRSSCKCG0W31CQU/image-asset.jpeg AI-revolution - New IP. New top-down IP on track for release in 2030. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/digital/identity/immediacy daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707326752507-PYQLETCLX9D3FULSUF86/image-asset.jpeg Identity-immediacy - Research patents. Meta want to provide us with more ‘emotionally relevant’ content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707326783070-4YUGN64PXVJ5BUO28QQH/image-asset.jpeg Identity-immediacy - Ads. Targeted advertising is the lifeblood of the data generation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707326833291-EM8NWFA3GR0FQ8XVWUPW/image-asset.jpeg Identity-immediacy - Guy Brandon. Our technologies could ‘compromise our ability to relate by sensitising the mind to distraction [which] undermines our ability to love’ (2016, p.30). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707327279452-V0DWQL5UTI8ALMCAJO52/image-asset.jpeg Identity-immediacy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/digital/research/wisdom daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707399591276-FYNLCD2JCOUMIKM397QD/image-asset.jpeg Research-wisdom - Technological progress. Advances of science and technology in the last 200 years bear out our ability to question, create, invent and innovate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707324253312-BUBRL6YJ3B21V3812FBV/image-asset.jpeg Research-wisdom - The purpose of science. To build knowledge and understanding of the natural world, providing constantly evolving explanations and predictions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707399772301-BJ5FBIDPYT0ERNYBZN8A/image-asset.jpeg Research-wisdom - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707324224213-1SWKSKFG3BD8RX1E7DUQ/image-asset.jpeg Research-wisdom - The peloton. Religion and science, far from being contradictory, operate in complementary spheres. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/cultural/ethics/cross daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708425394720-2Z4SPIF0LAV2D6M8GVZ8/image-asset.jpeg Ethics-cross - The Cross. One of the most recognisable and influential symbols in human history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708425532532-9E3MJ7OQVPANHLW2C255/image-asset.jpeg Ethics-cross - Symbolism. The symbol captures the suffering and victory of Christ over sin and death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708425722897-0ILIDAT0DC5LO0ET7EDH/image-asset.jpeg Ethics-cross - Liberation. “All you need is love!” ~ The Beatles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708425620041-79NNJ40OUMBVC1RNRX99/image-asset.jpeg Ethics-cross - Beauty, grace, sorrow. Transcending time and space, it communicates emotively across languages. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/cultural/freedom/music daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707163473777-A7QKGP8HLG2VHU8O7OPE/image-asset.jpeg Freedom-music - Music. ‘Music is the connective tissue among souls’ - Barbra Streisand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707400071097-9HBFE6Y7PPMIEEH573PE/image-asset.jpeg Freedom-music - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707163525519-C8UXX3Q6Q9NRSLHLY8KR/image-asset.jpeg Freedom-music - Blues and soul. Its roots lay in the antipathetic depths of human cruelty and despair found in slavery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707400110643-REW1X38ABV7MBTAM4SJ0/image-asset.jpeg Freedom-music - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/cultural/ideologies/women daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707164182830-F9TP1X9I5HV772N4A9SO/image-asset.jpeg Ideologies-women - In the throes of... A gradual sea-change from an essentially patriarchial society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/f6f2bb6f-2bf5-47ae-9ffc-4bf24f617c67/g-bell.png Ideologies-women - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707164477485-O689KBZLPAC9VRZI672U/image-asset.jpeg Ideologies-women - Change makers. Women of calibre and courage, who have not allowed gender or circumstance to dictate. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/prophetic/worldviews/whatisawv daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708426091976-8EXSS5ZT74U3QHT9BHXA/image-asset.jpeg Worldviews - What is a WV - Worldviews. The beliefs, values, and perspectives of 8 bn people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/5736cd40-d222-4667-a8a3-14e9c03546c4/worldview-examples-definition-types.jpg Worldviews - What is a WV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708426444885-L7AS4YPVZZXFXEL0NGJI/image-asset.jpeg Worldviews - What is a WV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708426568595-FTFYDX5LE670O6QFD0V0/image-asset.jpeg Worldviews - What is a WV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708426506760-IVDC1E77TN0SV5N0C621/image-asset.jpeg Worldviews - What is a WV - Ubuntu. ‘I am because we are’, valuing human interconnectedness. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/prophetic/theology/prayer daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/13f669e5-f793-4b79-8c94-a0687050e4bb/utt-arms.png Theology-prayer - Dieu et mon droit. UK parliament begins with prayer on a daily basis. “Dieu et mon droit” - a watchword of British culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708426771375-XDSSJB3A0JLBIX99NI5B/image-asset.jpeg Theology-prayer - Anguish. The human heart reaches out in times of crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708426888924-QUSZ3UOM1R3F9TPLK7L3/image-asset.jpeg Theology-prayer - Community. Prayer unites and draws communities together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708426968871-UBE4L4C4BYWFYISTODGZ/image-asset.jpeg Theology-prayer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/prophetic/tension/multiculturalism daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708422703865-52K5VSLAQ25I3DN8NS6R/image-asset.jpeg Tension-multiculturalism - Multi-culturalism. The UK plays host to one of the richest multicultural societies in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708422633362-QPH6A8883F76RU99EQUS/image-asset.jpeg Tension-multiculturalism - Constitutional foundation. A country’s ‘host culture’ plays a vital role in enabling citizens to thrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708422783836-SUKW42T68XYQOCUOJHCR/image-asset.jpeg Tension-multiculturalism - Polytheism. 21st Century minds need to project back into civilisations of local guardian deities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1707323257748-N8U87CAITK8BN30CFQ7W/image-asset.jpeg Tension-multiculturalism - Yahweh. “What is your name?”. The reply received was “I am who I am’, transcribed as Yahweh. https://www.understandingthetimes.co.uk/prophetic/tension/espionage daily 0.75 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708427142811-AQ8AOHPMDIGJB6JZ6L0H/image-asset.jpeg Tension-espionage - Spying. As old as time… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708427215698-0J3KOB48LVLDB4EOBHLK/image-asset.jpeg Tension-espionage - Playing roles. The prejudices of the day, offer perfect camouflage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708427338010-IJCA2FKM9T7ET94Y74IW/image-asset.jpeg Tension-espionage - Deception. Habits of deception become second nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600044a2e90dd00ceac424b7/1708427430057-XYIUA0T0694875NSPCD2/image-asset.jpeg Tension-espionage - Modern espionage. 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