Year: 2024 - Page 8 - Kairos – By Brian Niemeier

Teen Drug Overdoses Double

The mental, physical, and spiritual health crises facing American young adults and adolescents took a massive turn for the worse in 2022. According to the New England Journal of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates of teen drug overdoses doubled compared to 2018. Using data…

January 16, 20245 Comments

Millennial Hall of Mirrors

Talk to Millennials long enough, and they'll turn the topic of conversation to their preferred pop culture brands. Discussing these corporate IPs with them for any length of time will give you the definite impression that this generation doesn't just consume these entertainment products, they project themselves into them. To…

January 15, 20249 Comments

Ratioing Internet Atheists

It's Friday, so to lighten the mood from the heavy topics we've been covering this week, please enjoy the following highlight reel of me ratioing internet atheists. It all started with this piece of circular cringe: The natural response was, of course ... To be honest, I'd intended that meme…

January 12, 202410 Comments

The Responsibility of Hope

This week's posts on the challenges faced by the Millennial generation and ideas for how to help them meet those challenges sparked a lively discussion that ranged across multiple posts. Being an editor, I have spliced a selection of comments on related themes into the following dialogue. Author JD Cowan…

January 11, 202417 Comments

Japan’s Childlessness Crisis

The Land of the Rising Sun may have no tomorrow if a solution to the economically advanced but spiritually demoralized nation's fertility woes isn't found. Japan's childlessness crisis has gained international notoriety over the past several years. But the crisis goes beyond the much-discussed "herbivore" phenomenon of young men withdrawing…

January 10, 202427 Comments

How We Can Help Millennials

We talk about generations as if they're clearly defined categories, but in reality the gaps between generational cohorts are pretty ambiguous. Being Gen Y, my perspective on current intergenerational conflicts is as close to objective as anyone but a member of the dwindling Greatest Generation. If you've been paying even…

January 9, 202412 Comments

Millennials: Depressed and Disordered

Men, what does it mean to be happy? According to Mammon and Moloch, it means making as much money and sleeping with as many high-value women as possible. But in the Christian tradition, happiness comes from living in harmony with God, neighbor, nature, and yourself. By that standard, Millennials might…

January 8, 20248 Comments

DDF Vindicates Francis on Fiducia

Last month, controversy broke out over a pastoral document issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith dealing with non-liturgical blessings for people in irregular relationships. The DDF doc, Fiducia supplicans, was seized upon by sensationalist news outlets in the Death Cult and radical traditionalist media to libel…

January 5, 20243 Comments

State Persecutes Kim Davis

Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who made headlines for acting in line with the basic reality that two people of the same sex cannot contract matrimony, is back in the news. This time, anti-Christs are celebrating the state's persecution of Davis through lawfare - in particular, a district…

January 4, 2024

Heavenly Light Music Video

For those who enjoyed superversive musician Ben Zwycky's rendition of "Silent Night", you'll be delighted to learn that the second - and title - track from his new album Heavenly Light is now live. As promised, here is the second music video from my first album, this time for the…

January 3, 20242 Comments