Between 1526 and the 1580s, slavery became fully institutionalized. Africans moved from being one labor source among many to the central pillar of Iberian colonization. Brazil’s sugar boom, Mexico’s ...

The AI industry has made a colossal wager. In 2024 alone, $57 billion flowed into cloud infrastructure designed to host massive language models 1 —a staggering 10-fold increase over the actual market ...

That is the heart of what we now call animal chaplaincy — spiritual accompaniment for animals, in life, in suffering, and in death. In ancient times, animals were brought as offerings in the Temple.