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

‘It’s as though Jesus’s birth also birthed a new way of seeing people. God becoming human enabled people to see how people resembled God.’ Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images

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: