Christianity in particularNick Cave, musician, Red Hand Files, January 2026Machines can already do what we’d mistaken for thinking. The question is whether we’ll recover what we’d forgotten we’d lost, not thinking in the abstract, but thinking that builds. Every polished essay that arrives without a trace of struggle feels like an epitaph: Did anyone ever think here? Brendan McCord, Financial Times, 24 JanuaryThe Christian hope is not of escaping work, but of work finally renewed, good again, as it was meant to be. Quotations have to be from the past few days (or quoted therein), and we need author, source, and date.