
When History Overflows, Build a Lifeboat

To embrace a new story, safe uncertainty is the mindset we need to cultivate not just as individuals, but as organisations, institutions, and indeed whole societies. This demands honesty, acknowledgement of the challenges, and a commitment to facing them together.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

absolute certainty about all aspects of life would be tyranny. So, at a time in our history where we have huge decisions to make—about the climate, about technology, capitalism, democracy—we need our freedom, of thought and action, more than ever. In an age of uncertainty, we have to ask ourselves what we need to be, and what we need to do—and to c
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How will we move the horizons of possibility, not just for those we directly lead, but for our whole culture, in the time of coronavirus?
More than ever in my lifetime, the direction of the culture around us, and the future of all those we love and care for, is quite literally in our hands. May God direct the decisions we make, and the way we commun
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