Opinion: Rebuilding lives with dignity: What refugees teach us about hope
By Sheila Badwan Every day at Hanan Relief Group (HRG), I am reminded of the profound resilience of the human spirit. The refugees who arrive in our community have endured war, persecution, displacement, and deep loss. Yet they show up ready to rebuild not only their futures, but their sense of home, belonging, and purpose.
Why do rich people give?
By Hilary Pearson What do we really know about ultra-wealthy donors? A new book reports the results of a third major survey of wealthy UK donors and will be of interest to anyone wanting to understand the motivations, fears, and expectations of their potential donors. Rich Expectations: Why Rich People Give, by Beth Breeze and
‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire
ByJessica Russ-Smith & Michelle Lazarus In the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts, albums, painting, photographs and much more to train their products such as ChatGPT – usually without any compensation to or consent from the
AI ‘dreams’ up new realities. How does this impact the way we understand our own dreaming?
By Sara Oscar Surrealists believed in the power of dreams. Inspired by Freud’s theories of the unconscious and dream-work, André Breton saw the irrationality of dreams as an artistic method capable of revealing new, revolutionary ways of being. A century later, what it means to dream stretches beyond the unconscious into the disembodied processes of machine systems.
Reading For Thanksgiving: Picture Books That Help Explain Religious Freedom
By Chelsea Langston Bombino (ANALYSIS) When we read aloud to young children — ones who cannot yet read for themselves — we are shaping how they learn to look at the world. Charlotte Mason insisted that children must be given living books: Narratives shaped by ideas, not by worksheets or moral shortcuts. As she wrote
