Society
Kazakhstan and the Holy See are holding a colloquium on the rights and dignity of vulnerable children. Family support, incurable illness and the ethical limits of artificial intelligence are central to the agenda.
Society
Faith is a personal search; religion is an institution with a hierarchy, a dogma and a cash desk. How the living search for the sacred was appropriated by those who declared themselves the compulsory middleman: to heaven only through us. Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, indulgences, and the throne-and-altar pact.
Society
Long before banks, courts and passports, humanity already had a working mechanism that made thousands of strangers trust one another. People know how to trust those they know personally. A shared faith answered a different question: how to trade and keep your word with somebody you are seeing for the first time.
