Agora

Children spend a large part of their day with screens, stories, and digital content that keeps them occupied and moving from one thing to the next, when it could, instead, teach them to notice, ponder, wonder and look for value.

Skilled artisans still make and repair the things people use every day, yet most of their work remains unseen. Between mass production and anonymous supply chains, craftsmanship often disappears from view.

Necessity is the mother of invention, but also of resourcefulness and adaptability, improvisation and creative solutioning. Underdeveloped areas are rife with the above—people often making things work out of nothing, learning as they work and acquiring skills through daily practices for survival. Foreign help and companies often come in overlooking and dismissing the local know-how, tending to rep...

AI is here to stay and like other technologies before it, believers need to understand how to make use of it to grow in faith. From the printing press to the Internet and to Smartphones, technology has been used to help believers grow in faith. This Carmel explores how AI can help us grow in our every day lives.

For many people, daily life is dominated by immediate concerns such as food, safety, and income. When survival consumes most of our attention, the future only goes as far as the next day.

Many people know how to do things that others rely on: they fix, make, teach, care, organize, and solve problems as part of daily life. These daily skills however, rarely go beyond serving immediate need and their value remains, in large part, unrecognized. Talent exists, but opportunity and the vision for doing more is missing.

A great concentration of the world's population is living far from the land and have become exceedingly dissociated from it as a result. Because our food is packaged and our work is indoors and we rarely come in contact with the elements that nourish and sustain us, we tend to treat the vital resources with little interest, concern or understanding.

Children encounter stories throughout their day, in books, on screens, and through familiar characters. Many of these stories move past quickly and leave children without useful examples, language, or direction they can use to understand their own choices, fears, or responsibilities.

So much of our lives is determined by the spaces we share. Streets, buildings, and public places set the terms for how people move, meet, and spend time together. The form of these spaces influences whether life feels ordered, welcoming, and worth caring for.

Digital platforms have significantly reshaped the way in which we connect, speak and view each other. Much of our interaction happens online and is guided by what can be measured, ranked, and is overall profitable, without much concern for authenticity and depth which foster true human connection.

Humans crave connection. Our differences spark curiosity and wonder, but they can also create unease and distance. Our rich cultural mosaic has so much to offer if we explore it but it leaves us feeling estranged when it is not understood.In an age of easy travel we benefit from more exposure than ever, but it is often reduced to itineraries, photos, and quick transactions, or to curated feeds and...