Vision reviews Noreena Hertz’s The Lonely Century. The author contends that the loneliness pandemic, too, must end, and outlines how we can make that happen.

Values play a key role in our understanding of history. A shift in those values may demand that we recontextualize the past.

Conspiracy theories have been with us for a long time. We’re now in the age of conspiracism: no need for a theory, just a social media platform.

The global scourge of discarded plastic—from macro- to microscopic—is finally starting to get the attention it deserves.

What are we to do when we undergo suffering, and how are we to understand God’s role?

Though it’s the world’s dominant economic system, capitalism’s excesses are drawing increasing criticism.

Vision reviews Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy and John Keane’s The New Despotism. In the wake of the contentious 2020 US presidential election, their message is sobering.

What’s the best way to cope with a pandemic?

“Truth is fallen in the street,” an ancient prophet told his people. He could just as easily have been talking about today.

Nehemiah’s account chronicles his efforts not only to restore the walls of Jerusalem but also to strengthen its returning inhabitants.

If the editor of Ezra-Nehemiah rearranged passages to achieve a specific literary effect, how would that have affected the story flow?

Blamed for all sorts of bad behavior, a long-maligned hormone is being reappraised.

Many of us probably nurse a dearly held grudge against someone—even though that grudge mostly just hurts us.

What does the Bible say about holding grudges and seeking revenge when you’ve been wronged?

Let’s put away the airbrush and take a closer look at this person we call the “self”—and why we think it needs an airbrush in the first place.

Avoiding another Hiroshima begins with you and me.

Vision interviews Italian philosopher and academic Donatella Di Cesare, author of two recent books addressing conditions that threaten the global status quo.

We are by nature focused first on self. Until we change that, the world will never work for all of us.