So, here we are… entering 2025. We are roughly a quarter of a way through the 21st century.
This is quite a startling thought if you remember celebrating the dawn of the year 2000. How does the passage of this quarter century feel to you? How have you grown – and struggled – spiritually during this time?
For all of us, the cliché is true: the older we get, the quicker the years seem to go by. Time passes, indeed hastens. And the pace of life seems to get ever faster.
Great men?
The “great man theory” of history, often ascribed to the 19th-century philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle, has a lot at …