Which China we see will determine how we view the implications of its awakening.

The decade following the 1918–20 flu pandemic is remembered as a time of freedom—both for growth and for selfish excess. How are the post-COVID 2020s likely to shape up?

Solomon’s name is attached to three books of the Bible. In this installment, we focus on the Song of Songs and the book of Proverbs.

Pop psychologists freely use words such as introvert and extravert, but these terms can be misleading as well as harmful to personal development.

Vision reviews Noreena Hertz’s The Lonely Century. The author contends that the loneliness pandemic, too, must end, and outlines how we can make that happen.

Values play a key role in our understanding of history. A shift in those values may demand that we recontextualize the past.

Conspiracy theories have been with us for a long time. We’re now in the age of conspiracism: no need for a theory, just a social media platform.

The global scourge of discarded plastic—from macro- to microscopic—is finally starting to get the attention it deserves.

What are we to do when we undergo suffering, and how are we to understand God’s role?

Though it’s the world’s dominant economic system, capitalism’s excesses are drawing increasing criticism.

Vision reviews Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy and John Keane’s The New Despotism. In the wake of the contentious 2020 US presidential election, their message is sobering.

What’s the best way to cope with a pandemic?

“Truth is fallen in the street,” an ancient prophet told his people. He could just as easily have been talking about today.

Nehemiah’s account chronicles his efforts not only to restore the walls of Jerusalem but also to strengthen its returning inhabitants.

If the editor of Ezra-Nehemiah rearranged passages to achieve a specific literary effect, how would that have affected the story flow?

Blamed for all sorts of bad behavior, a long-maligned hormone is being reappraised.

Many of us probably nurse a dearly held grudge against someone—even though that grudge mostly just hurts us.