Flashes of Insight

		[{"id":3305,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2026\/01\/01\/january-reflections\/","name":"january-reflections","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/January-reflections-1024x576.jpg","alt":""},"title":"January Reflections","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"flashes","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/flashes\/"},"date":"Jan 1, 2026","dateGMT":"2025-12-31 12:10:00","modifiedDate":"2025-12-31 08:46:27","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-12-30 19:46:27","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/reflections\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Reflections<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/reflections\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Reflections<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":8,"sec":22},"status":"publish","excerpt":"January's Reflections challenge us to walk a way that prioritizes inner transformation over outward recognition and chooses mercy over judgment. Recognize the divine within your ordinary moments and find the courage to begin each day anew with Christ."}]	

		[{"id":3184,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/09\/the-ideology-of-the-land-and-its-quiet-power-over-politics-and-culture\/","name":"the-ideology-of-the-land-and-its-quiet-power-over-politics-and-culture","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/land-and-culture-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"The ideology of \u201cthe land\u201d and its quiet power over politics and culture","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"JP Grayland","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/joeg\/"},"date":"Dec 9, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-09 05:01:00","modifiedDate":"2025-12-04 23:57:22","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-12-04 10:57:22","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":47},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Land is more than physical territory. It holds emotion, memory, and meaning. Across cultures and histories, land becomes a source of identity, pride, and grief. Its importance transcends soil\u2014it shapes who we are, where we belong, and how we understand others and ourselves."},{"id":3166,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/09\/stop-chasing-status\/","name":"stop-chasing-status","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mask-off-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Stop chasing status","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Simon Skidmore","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/simonskidmore\/"},"date":"Dec 9, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-09 05:00:00","modifiedDate":"2025-12-14 19:01:04","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-12-14 06:01:04","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":3,"sec":2},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Ever notice how competition creeps into everything? We copy people we admire\u2014and then fight for the same spotlight. Philippians calls that out, and offers something better: trading rivalry for relationships built on care, not comparison."},{"id":3080,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/02\/from-gaza-to-heaven-one-church\/","name":"from-gaza-to-heaven-one-church","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/all-saints-day-ii-1911-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"From Gaza to Heaven: One church","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Stephen Bevans","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/stephenbevans\/"},"date":"Dec 2, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-02 05:05:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-26 23:23:38","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-26 10:23:38","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":3,"sec":7},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The Communion of Saints is not a tidy diagram of heavenly categories, but a living, breathing mystery. The boundaries are porous. Those struggling in war zones or poverty share something real with the canonised. All are caught up in one story of grace."},{"id":2740,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/02\/new-catholicism-local-realities-global-communion\/","name":"new-catholicism-local-realities-global-communion","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gay-shoes-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"New Catholicism: Local realities, global communion","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Thomas O'Loughlin","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/tomoloughlin\/"},"date":"Dec 2, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-02 05:04:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-26 23:27:12","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-26 10:27:12","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":30},"status":"publish","excerpt":"A new kind of catholicism is emerging: global in scope, yet respectful of the local. It honours complexity, listens deeply, and resists easy answers. The challenge ahead is to hold unity and diversity in tension with grace and humility."},{"id":3078,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/02\/migrant-mothers-at-christmas\/","name":"migrant-mothers-at-christmas","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/yunus-tug-scJD6M1LQfM-unsplash-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Migrant mothers at Christmas","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Nuala Kenny","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/nuala-kenny\/"},"date":"Dec 2, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-02 05:03:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-27 19:02:24","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-27 06:02:24","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":41},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Seeing Jesus as a refugee reorients Christmas. His birth and life challenge us to resist dehumanisation, reject fear of the outsider, and embrace a theology of movement, mercy, reconciliation, and shared humanity. The Nativity becomes a call to justice, not just sentiment or celebration."},{"id":3091,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/02\/church-reform-may-come-sooner\/","name":"church-reform-may-come-sooner","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wacjpg-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Church reform may come sooner","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Colm Holmes","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/colm\/"},"date":"Dec 2, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-02 05:02:00","modifiedDate":"2025-12-06 12:10:29","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-12-05 23:10:29","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":41},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Shared Decision Making. Equality for All Genders. Optional Celibacy. Positive Sexual Morality. A Welcome for All. These five demands once branded us as troublemakers. Now they surface in every serious reform conversation worldwide. Prophetic voices don't stay silent\u2014they become the conversation."}]	

		[{"id":3098,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/02\/what-deepfakes-steal-from-us\/","name":"what-deepfakes-steal-from-us","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maple-at-christmas-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"What deepfakes steal from us","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Justine Toh","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/justineton\/"},"date":"Dec 2, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-02 05:12:00","modifiedDate":"2025-12-02 20:08:03","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-12-02 07:08:03","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":5,"sec":40},"status":"publish","excerpt":"In an age that shrugs at the sacred, Justine Toh explains how deepfakes still manage to desecrate the dignity of the people depicted in them. Maybe \u201cnothing is sacred\u201d \u2013 until it is."},{"id":3013,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/02\/buddhist-technologists-work-to-shape-the-future-of-ai\/","name":"buddhist-technologists-work-to-shape-the-future-of-ai","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SA_celine-haeberly-DwpmtAo01fY-unsplash-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Buddhist technologists work to shape the future of AI","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Hayden Royster","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/haydenroyster\/"},"date":"Dec 2, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-02 05:12:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-26 23:43:49","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-26 10:43:49","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":6,"sec":10},"status":"publish","excerpt":"A growing network of Buddhists and technologists is attempting to ensure that wisdom traditions have a voice in shaping artificial intelligence. Their work spans translation projects, ethical debates and deep questions about consciousness that challenge both the limits and possibilities of modern AI."},{"id":3041,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/christendom-is-over-but-not-christianity-cardinal-zuppi\/","name":"christendom-is-over-but-not-christianity-cardinal-zuppi","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eye-to-the-world-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"If Christendom is over, Christianity certainly is not - Cardinal Zuppi","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Mateo Zuppi","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/mateozuppi\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:15:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-26 11:22:59","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-25 22:22:59","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":8,"sec":8},"status":"publish","excerpt":"In an address to the Italian bishops, Conference President, Mateo Zuppi , describes a Church that refuses to draw battle lines, sees no enemies to defeat, and only people to love. Stripped of presumed influence, the community rediscovers its true strength: the quiet gift of itself."},{"id":2996,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/leo-and-bartholomew-to-stand-together-at-historic-nicaea\/","name":"leo-and-bartholomew-to-stand-together-at-historic-nicaea","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Leo-XIV-Bartholomew-I-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Leo and Bartholomew to stand together at historic Nicaea","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"David L. Klein","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/davidklein\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:12:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-26 11:25:17","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-25 22:25:17","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":5,"sec":7},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The historic site of Nicaea, where Christian doctrine was first unified, now hosts Pope Leo XIV and Patriarch Bartholomew in a gesture of shared faith. Their presence together invites reflection on unity, tradition, and the potential for healing old rifts."}]