Tom White

“The fact of being created in the image of God means that, from the moment of his creation, man has been imprinted with a regal character [...]. God is love and the fount of love: the Fashioner of our nature has made this to be our feature too, so that through love — a reflection of divine love — human beings may recognize and manifest the dignity... See more

Remember we are told to “rejoice.” Sometimes when you are wondering what God wants you to do, He really wants to give you something.

The stomach-clench of anxiety isn’t anything like that. Rather, it emerges from the feeling that reality poses a fundamental threat to your security, so that hypervigilance and constant effort will be required to forestall annihilation. It implies that it’ll be very difficult indeed to make it to safety (with the corollary that if you fail, it’ll... See more

Passionate curiosity creates its own path through the world.

Founder Brian Halligan on people:

"The older I get, the more I think outstanding taste in people is the only real alpha."

The second lesson is: manage the pain well. Learn what it has to teach you. Don’t bury it in the ground like the servant in the parable of the talents; put it to work like the other two servants did.

The third lesson is: give the pain back to the master. When you’re finished with it—when you’ve mined it for gold and extracted its treasure—give it to... See more

No matter where we live in the world, then, it would be wise for us all to think carefully about the global chaos that is only beginning to consume us all. What is happening? Why is it happening? Where are we headed? What, if anything, can and should we do, individually and collectively?

he Roman Catholic Church presents a unique data point. It is not merely a religious body but the longest continuously operating international institution in human history

As journalists lose their jobs, more publicists get hired. The result is that there are now seven times as many publicists as journalists . The rise of AI agents will only make this worse, much worse.

The entire media ecosystem is breaking down. Around three-quarters of journalists now block publicists who are (they believe) spamming them. I get so... See more