http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/publisher_rss.aspxhttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=21834 <p>Ecology has become a term that sets people at odds. It is often used synonymously with environmentalism, which itself has come to be a lightning rod. Surely there is nothing wrong in studying relations with and between living things that are part of the same household. But we should beware when politics or economic agendas invade such study.</p> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:07:47 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=18194 <p>Recent interviews in Europe for the upcoming <i>Vision</i> video based on the series <i>Messiahs! Rulers and the Role of Religion</i> emphasized the disturbing truth that humanity has no sure protection against the rise of totalitarianism.</p> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:09:41 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=15470 <p>History teaches some sad lessons about leaders who answer the self-perceived call of destiny, abetted by publics overwhelmed by social, economic and political disorder.</p> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:12:59 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=13062 For the past decade, Vision has published in print and on the Web a wide range of material on the key issues of our time. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:14:38 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=6808 <img title="Insight Fall 08" border="0" hspace="5" alt="Insight Fall 08" vspace="2" align="left" src="http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/uploadedImages/Home/From_the_Publisher/Articles/Insight Fall 08(1).bmp" width="72" height="87" />A recent article in the U.S. magazine Atlantic carried the headline “Is Pornography Adultery?” and noted that “it may be closer than you think.” Let’s be honest with ourselves and admit that pornography is not a necessary evil. It’s just plain wrong. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:16:28 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5808 Many people believe that we can watch anything and everything to no ill effect. But is this true? Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:18:24 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5718 <img title="Insight Spring 2008" border="0" hspace="5" alt="Insight Spring 2008" vspace="5" align="left" src="http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/uploadedImages/Home/From_the_Publisher/Articles/Insight Vision for Life.jpg" width="72" height="73" />Combining wisdom and overview in distant times, Solomon preserved the following proverb for posterity: "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Yet even in this apparently straightforward quote about vision, all is not as it seems on the surface. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:19:29 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=4158 <p><img title="Insight Fall 2007" border="0" hspace="5" alt="Insight Fall 2007" vspace="5" align="left" src="http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/uploadedImages/Home/From_the_Publisher/Articles/Insight.jpg" width="70" height="85" />In his recent book, <em>Jesus of Nazareth</em>, Pope Benedict XVI sets out to distill the understanding he has come to after a lifelong theological study of Christianity’s central figure. Is his understanding consistent with the biblical record?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:22:50 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=4122 <p>A British acquaintance formerly in government recently observed that the world is lacking the language of values. He commented further on the need in his current profession for a revival of the terms of ethical discourse. He has been shocked at the inability of leaders of various kinds to apply such language to serious social problems.</p> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:21:39 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=3688 <p><img title="Insight Summer 2007" border="0" hspace="5" alt="Insight Summer 2007" vspace="5" align="left" src="http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/uploadedImages/Home/From_the_Publisher/Articles/Picture-InsightSummer07.jpg" width="70" height="85" />How we come to know what we know is at the center of an often fierce battle being waged against religious belief. Several leading writers have recently authored books with the intent of showing that belief in God is irrational.</p> <p><br /><br /> </p> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:24:31 GMT