Internet

Working for Church Renewal

Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal explores ways technology might serve the bishops in addressing their greatest challenges. I’ve been proud to be a part of that group. Continue Reading »

8 Mar 2023

The Decade of Misremembering

by Jacob Phillips

Chuck Klosterman's new book shows how the emergence of the internet has altered our cultural remembrance of the '90s. Continue Reading »

8 Nov 2022

Just as we don’t want science or warfare to be unmoored from ethics and morality, we should likewise insist that technology remain tethered to a proper understanding of human nature. Continue Reading »

18 Apr 2022

The Prayers of Big Data

by Samuel D. James

The selling of user data in a prayer app is a wonderfully concise illustration of what emerges victorious when e-commerce and piety collide. Continue Reading »

15 Feb 2022

Is There Hope for Gen Z?

by Elizabeth Bachmann

At root, Gen Z’s obsession with identity is a perverted but genuine pursuit of truth in a world that obscures it. Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2022

Into the Metaverse

by Samuel D. James

For nearly a decade, Facebook has been shifting the company away from an ethos of connecting real people and toward a kind of permanent digital habitation, the contraction of life so as to fit inside algorithms. Continue Reading »

16 Nov 2021

Stigmatize Social Media

by Samuel D. James

Regulation of social media companies is a good idea, but the wisest, most plausible, and also most effective option is not law, but stigma. Continue Reading »

8 Oct 2021

The Social Cost of Online Dating

by Anna Bonta Moreland

Dating apps lead young people to settle for a quick fix, a temporary satiation of a deep, human desire to love and be loved, to know and be known. Continue Reading »

4 Oct 2021