Climate change
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The vacuum where leaders should be
Politics and institutions are increasingly governed by risk management, not leadership. But real leadership requires imagination, courage and the willingness to challenge false stories. Of course, there are Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollahs, who run their worlds according to their own storyline. But none in any meaningful way serve democracies. But are…
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The poor don’t debate climate change — they survive it
The poor do not discuss climate change in conference halls. They encounter it at noon, under a tin roof, on a construction site, beside a dry hand pump, in a field where the soil has turned to powder, or in a flooded lane where schoolbooks float like dead birds. For them, climate change is not…
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Political science insights can help the church
Synodality represents a major cultural shift. Political science reveals how large reforms mirror society’s move from fossil fuels to renewable energy: slow, demanding and contested. Structural change requires persistence, patience and strong leadership capable of guiding communities through uncertainty and resistance with clarity and courage.
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