2026 opens with a mirror: look at the soul, then choose stewardship over symbolism. Kerrie Holschbach of Food For His Children shows poverty breaking when goats become micro-loans, youth become entrepreneurs, and dignity replaces dependency in rural Tanzania. Bob Scott of Bob Scott Productions calls communities back to the Hemlock Little World’s Fair and America 250 pride—build something worth passing on.

The year closed with a reckoning. Money without math. Values without truth. Stefan Padfield, Executive Director of the Free Enterprise Project at the National Center for Public Policy Research, exposed how ESG burns trust while hiding behind virtue. Marie Fischer, Project 21 Ambassador, warned that comfort breeds surrender as youth drift and culture decays. Reverend Steven L. Craft, M.Div., Prison Chaplain & Author, thundered that freedom dies without morality. Clarity over chaos. Accountability over optics. The fight continues into the new year.

A nation decides which suffering matters. In Israel, children learn fear before bedtime, and Shava Kleinman of the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund explains what it takes to rebuild a shattered inner world. Then historian Walter Herbst traces how managed truth, from JFK to today, hollowed public trust. Two conversations. One warning. Lose the moral spine, and everything else follows.