20-something’s exploring

…she looked around and over time noticed that so many people her age, twenty-somethings, seemed newly open to exploring belief in God.

"We are leagues away from the New Atheist movement of the 1990s," Ms. Ash wrote in her book, noting that many people she interviewed had been shaped by the social rupture of the pandemic and the isolation brought on by screen addiction, which left them searching for a sense of wonder and community.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/style/lamorna-ash-book-religious-conversion.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boldly going w/humanism

"Star Trek was explicitly crafted by its creator, Roddenberry, into a humanist manifesto; the stories Trek told were humanist parables, putting forth the core philosophies to which he was devoted: equality, reason, integrity, fairness, opportunity, community. I was soaking them up before I even really understood what they were. I didn't know it way back in 1972, but Star Trek had already made a humanist of me. It just took me a while to discover that there was a word for it."

— Star Trek and Humanism: Living by the Star Trek Ethos in a Troubled World by Scott Robinson
https://a.co/jkRipSG

Near-death survivors

…at the annual conference of the International Association for Near-Death Studies

https://www.threads.com/@nytopinion/post/DTNRrQADoot?xmt=AQF0Nqe0m6AmYsOWfEUG0DOxZGZyM_SIlJJMCFFB7kCDd6Rbzo_I3N__cwkw8clQJEn2pSLr&slof=1