Four days ago, faith leaders, technology specialists, policymakers, and academics gathered in Nairobi to discuss the values that should guide artificial intelligence. Less than two weeks earlier, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research...

From October 15 to 17, religious leaders, interfaith scholars, civil-society representatives, and policymakers are meeting in Salt Lake City for the 2026 G20 Interfaith Forum under the theme "Interfaith Engagement for Policy Impact." The forum is no...

As of October 14, 2026, one of the most consequential quiet developments in the digital-governance field is Australia's continued construction of a national, economy-wide Digital ID System. Its official description is careful and reassuring: partici...

Artificial intelligence is crossing an important boundary. It is no longer only generating words, images, recommendations, or computer code. Increasingly, an AI system can be given a goal, credentials, tools, network access, spending authority, and ...

The most important technological announcement of the past week may not be a new chatbot, robot, weapon, or digital currency. It is a coordinated attempt to give artificial intelligence an unprecedented capacity to model living systems. On October 7,...

One year ago today, the Gaza ceasefire took effect with promises large enough to reshape the Middle East. Major military operations would end. The remaining hostages would return. Hamas would disarm and surrender civil rule. Israeli forces would wit...

One year ago, the world was told that a pathway out of the Gaza war had opened. The first phase of the agreement was announced on October 8, 2025, and the ceasefire took effect on October 10 (House of Commons Library, 2026). Since then, the remainin...

On October 6, 2026, a disturbing scene unfolded during an official meeting of the Ottumwa City Council in Iowa, United States. Matthew Dalbey, a former city council member associated with The Satanic Temple of Iowa, delivered an opening invocation a...

A Warning Has Moved from Theory into History For years, warnings about artificial intelligence escaping human control were treated as distant speculation. The scenario belonged to science fiction, academic forecasting, or arguments about systems mor...

Introduction: The Strongest Question Is Not About a Triangle The relationship between Seventh-day Adventist youth organizations, Scouting, and Freemasonry deserves careful Christian examination. Yet this investigation becomes unnecessarily weak when...

In June, governments celebrated what was described as an immediate and permanent ceasefire between the United States and Iran. In October, the war remains active, another peace proposal has been rejected, thousands of additional American sailors and...

On October 2, the leaders of the Group of Seven announced an immediate, coordinated release of 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products over four months, framed as implementation of emergency commitments made earlier in the year. They placed spe...

The same week produced two pictures that should sober the Church. In one, Iran's foreign minister described a seven-day path toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz and beginning negotiations with the United States. In the other, Washington rejected t...

Three days ago, the United States government did something more spiritually revealing than merely adopting a new technology policy. An executive order directed federal agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” and “AI” with “Super Intelligence” ...

Digital identity is entering a decisive new phase. Governments are no longer discussing it merely as an experimental way to replace identity cards. Digital wallets are being connected to banking, payments, employment credentials, health records, gov...