Being Real

by Sarah Soltis

The Christian vision of reality requires that we reject both our culture’s false surrender to algorithms and attempts at self-creation. Continue Reading »

1 May 2023

Cutting the Cord

by Samira Kawash

The familial, connective virtues of landlines live on in their wireless descendants.  Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2022

When the TV Turns Off

by Cassandra Nelson

To say that Don DeLillo dislikes television would be an understatement. He actually seems to think it’s imperiling our souls. DeLillo’s novel White Noise—which won the National Book Award in 1985 and secured his reputation as one of the best contemporary American writers—was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2021

Lectio Divina and the Facebook Newsfeed

by Br. Michael Baggot

The ancient monks’ most glorious libraries contained less information than the average smartphone. But their habits of receptivity and assimilation can empower us to lift our gaze from our screens ennobled rather than enslaved. Continue Reading »

25 Aug 2016

iPhones Have Consequences

by Sally Thomas

In a Doonesbury cartoon of recent vintage, Zipper, nephew to the 1960s slacker Zonker Harris, sits in a college class, his laptop open before him, giving every impression of industrious note-taking: Tap tap tappity tap tap. “Dude,” a classmate instant-messages him. “The professor’s calling . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2008