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Insight Video: Joseph Stalin was responsible for the death of millions of Soviet citizens. It was Stalin’s mentor, Vladimir Lenin, who founded Soviet communism and insisted that terror was indispensable to political power. Could such men rise again? 

Insight Video: From humble origins Napoleon Bonaparte, the “Little Corporal,” had become a neo-Roman ruler in the style of Julius Caesar. Just how did he do it?

Insight Video: The violence of Mao Zedong’s rule in 20^th-century China remains unsurpassed in modern history. Why and how do false messiahs continue to haunt the world?

Several events scheduled for 2014–15 may make a significant difference to life in Europe and around the world.

Insight Video: Following its crushing defeat in the First World War, Germany suffered such political instability, unemployment and inflation that many accepted the appeals of extremists. Could anything like it happen again?

Insight Video: From ancient Babylon and Rome to Berlin and Beijing, false messiahs are part of world history. What can we learn from them? How might we recognize the next ones?

Insight Video: We’re losing topsoil at an astonishing rate around the world. Can this lead to the end of agriculture?

We know from the record of history that when civilizations do not respect their topsoil, they fail almost without exception.

Insight Video: Abuse of topsoil and soil erosion are growing problems around the world; without healthy soil, we can’t produce healthy food. It’s a global issue, yet the solution is essentially local.

Like so many problems in the Middle East, the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians has some of its roots in World War I, a war that has cast a long shadow over the past hundred years.

Insight Video: Events in the Middle East continue to feature in world news as they have for more than a century. Is it possible for the peoples of this region to be reconciled? Can cooperation and lasting peace be achieved?

Biblically, the setting and lessons of the seven church congregations to which John wrote deliver a powerful reminder that values are worth holding on to, and that compromise never brings lasting reward.

Insight Video: Visiting the ruins of ancient cities such as Ephesus, Pergamos and Laodicea can be an interesting exercise from a historical and cultural viewpoint, but it also illuminates the setting and lessons of a message in the book of Revelation.

Insight Video: A few years ago an article in The Atlantic carried the headline, “Is Pornography Adultery?” As the subhead noted, it may be closer than you think.

Insight Video: On the list of top economic powers, China moved into second position in 2010. Will the 21^st century be Chinese? What might this mean for the rest of the world?

Will the 21^st century be Chinese? And if it is, what does that mean for China and for the rest of the world?

It’s often noted that leaders make use of religion to advance political agendas. Today, North Korea's Kim Il-sung's ruler cult is flourishing.

Insight Video: For more than six decades North Koreans have succumbed to the worship of their deified dictators. What happens when religion and politics become fatally mixed?

The influence of the Bible on Western culture is well known though increasingly avoided.

Throughout history people have asked why, if God is both good and all-powerful, He doesn’t intercede to prevent pain and suffering in the world. Big Questions, Straight Answers addresses the questions of uncertainty, fear, hardship and suffering which are all realities of the human condition. We think you will be encouraged by the answers.