A hidden life in the era of social media can still change history, as the story of Jesus shows | Justine Toh

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A hidden life in the era of social media can still change history, as the story of Jesus shows | Justine Toh

I see in Christmas an invitation to see differently: God in the social outcast, life on the margins reimagined as the centre of gravity

Do you want to be influential?

So do 57% of gen Zs in the US who aspire to be influencers, presumably lured by money and fame. But say you also want to make the world a better place. In that case, maybe the spiritual instruction you need emerges in the famous final lines of George Eliot’s 1871 novel Middlemarch:

Justine Toh is senior research fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity

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