FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions
What is the purpose of Veritas Chronicles?
Bad news is good business for most media outlets. Veritas Chronicles is not a news channel or current affairs reporting service. It has a different mission. Discovering, reporting, and highlighting projects, people, and stories that make a real and positive difference to many is Veritas Chronicles' contribution to celebratory optimism in this challenged world.
Our underlying view is that there is more good than bad in every community and nation, even though challenges abound. There are people and projects that are committed to an upward trajectory rather than a downward spiral. These are our targets.
Why does Veritas Chronicles use some “Global Platforms” as part of its storytelling?
Veritas Chronicles is interested in hope for humanity. Therefore, the stories, people, and projects that foster that hope and confidence are the subjects of our research and reporting.
Veritas Chronicles is apolitical and non-denominational, with a faith-driven perspective. In that light, the Vatican’s Humanity 2.0 Project, and the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals are just two examples of where we find broad and diversified platforms from which to explore good people striving to do good, at scale.
Humanity 2.0 has the objective of creating a new, universal index of performance measurement that helps governments and corporations place divinity and human flourishing at the core. Within the sought after index, all organizations aim for outcomes beyond profit, beyond management by material objectives, to be inclusive of the “bottom line” without being exclusively driven by it. So Veritas Chronicles is watching for the people and organizations that resonate with, and respond pragmatically to, their faith-driven sense of purpose, with a human needs orientation, adopting this new, more robust, more expansive way of measuring success.
Many of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals of themselves seem impossible in the current (or any) political and social environment. However, they also provide focus and resources for countless people and projects that are delivering on-the-ground change at local, national, regional, or global levels.
The policy and editorial team of Veritas Chronicles have determined to particularly focus on scalable entrepreneurship as a vital social impact cause. Hence, the team will be watching and reporting on the progress of Generation Free Enterprise and ImpactU and other enterprises designed to train and nurture successful entrepreneurs.
Generation Free Enterprise is built to show young people ways to exit multigenerational poverty, dependency, addictions, etc. GFE posits that many less privileged youth grow up with a limited perspective of their lifetime options, where the visible exits from the “ghetto” are confined (in their minds) to elite sports, elite entertainment … or drug peddling. GFE’s training and experience programs show youth hundreds of alternatives and train them to explore those alternatives.
ImpactU’s scalable initiative focuses on soft skills training to complement academic or technical training, proposing that soft skills are a required upgrade to any kind of formal training in order to advance personal or career goals, and an essential protection against AI-driven workforce redundancies.
Another potentially large-scale platform of interest to Veritas Chronicles, though in its infancy from an academic perspective, is the subject of Applied Ancestry. This subject deals with helping the rising generations, who are sometimes discombobulated in the present because of family issues and increasingly divided social norms, to find role models and learning from the experiences of the earlier generations of their families.
Veritas Chronicles is watching these and other platforms so it can report, with sample anecdotes and whatever can be gathered for empirical evidence, of an “upward spiral.”
Why Is The Prosperity Paradox Featured So Frequently in Veritas Chronicles Content?
“The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty,” by Harvard profession Clayton M. Christensen (1952-2020) and co-authors, Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon, is what we call, a “principles platform.” In The Prosperity Paradox, the authors “reveal a paradox at the heart of most approaches to solving poverty. While noble, current solutions are not producing consistent results, and in some cases, have exacerbated the problem. At least twenty countries that have received billions of dollars’ worth of aid are poorer now,” they report. Applying rigorous and theory-driven analysis these authors suggest a better way. “The right kind of innovation not only builds companies—but also builds countries. The Prosperity Paradox identifies the limits of common economic development models, which tend to be top-down efforts, and offers a new framework for economic growth based on entrepreneurship and market-creating innovation.”
In addition to “platforms” does Veritas Chronicles have any other priorities?
Yes. One of the most important conversations and technological advances occurring in the world right now, is the accelerated progress of artificial intelligence (or machine learning). Veritas Chronicles has committed itself to be an active observer of the people, the technologies, and the issues, arising from the spread of AI across the world, particularly the effects of the concept of human reasoning also known as AGI (artificial general intelligence). There is no single owner or developer of AI / AGI, so it can’t be tracked simply. However, there are regularly convened worldwide conferences. The voices that occupy the speakers pulpit at such conferences offer a useful barometer. Attending and reporting on such conferences is one of the platforms, one of the ways, in which Veritas Chronicles can keep itself and its readers abreast of this vital subject.
Does Veritas Chronicles have a paid subscription?
No. This initiative is funded by its creators who desire for the content to be available to anyone who is interested.
Can You Contribute? Yes!
There are many global, regional, and national platforms that are designed to create change and “goodness” on a large scale. The Veritas Chronicles story teams are always in search mode for such platforms or projects, and — without regard to political or religious persuasions — highlighting the people who are driving them. We’d like to hear from you, if you think there’s a project or a platform that deserves more attention.
Where does our motivation come from?
All content on Veritas Chronicles is published free and will remain free. There is zero profit motive. So where does the motivation for this site come from? It comes from our personal faith in God. While we are neither political nor denominational, it is our observation that most, if not all, human progress is the result of the faith of people inspired by something greater than themselves. Who or what that faith may rest in can be different for different people.
We respect the faith of those who believe in the God of the Old Testament but not the New Testament. We respect the faith of those whose God is named Allah. Whether the supreme being or a person’s upward journey is that of Buddhism, Hinduism or any other world religion or lesser known being or ideal, we hold that faith is each person’s private and respected choice. Who or what is your faith contained in? We welcome stories about human flourishing regardless. Simultaneous with our faith inclusivity, we are clear about who and what motivates us. Veritas Chronicles is inclusive of all people. Our faith is simple and pointed up. We see people of faith spiralling upward reaching for more divine light and love and extending their hands to any and all who wish to express themselves in the quest to move closer to the ultimate source of this divine light and love. We do not accept the idea, despite the chaos in the world, that the world is descending into darkness. We can choose light and be part of the upwards spiral that we perceive in many places and people across the world.
Whose story should we be reporting? Whose story can you suggest? Anyone who wishes to uplift their fellow sojourners, anyone who would join with us in being seekers of truth — veritas — all who are seekers of increased love and light.
For those who may be interested, and in the light of these goals and our personal faith, we attach below a document called, In God We Trust. It is our simple expression of inclusion and respect describing our faith and confidence in God the Father and Jesus Christ.
