Humanities and Communities

by Nathan Nielson

The search for community is best accomplished through our common pursuit of the humanistic disciplines. Continue Reading »

29 May 2018

Cyber Self-Harm

by Aaron Kheriaty

The widespread practice of digital self-harm reveals sad truths about our culture of victimhood.  Continue Reading »

29 Jan 2018

The Filial Correction Online

by P. J. Smith

The debate over Amoris laetitia seems strange and strident largely because it is the first to take place in the world of social media platforms. Continue Reading »

2 Oct 2017

Facebook as Church

by Mark Bauerlein

Mark Zuckerberg fails to understand that church-going is more than an exercise in human community-building. Continue Reading »

3 Jul 2017

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

The End of Democracy?

by David T. Koyzis

Social media tend to magnify the expansive self, encouraging participants to stake out a virtual identity within the ethereal territory of the world wide web: “This is who I am, like it or not!” “My political beliefs are part of my identity; to call them into question is to call my very identity into question.” Continue Reading »

8 Mar 2016

The Age of Outrage

by Mathew Block

We are living in an age of outreach. The rise of Trump is evidence enough. But Trump and his followers are the symptom of a much deeper problem: a diseased culture facing the death of reasoned discourse and civil disagreement. Continue Reading »

4 Mar 2016

Agape Wins

by Molly Oshatz

There’s been much talk lately about the moral purposes of history, especially from those celebrating the recent Supreme Court decision regarding gay marriage. History, we hear, is on the side of ever-expanding personal freedom, and those who counter this expansion are history’s losers. This . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Jul 2015

The first E-pistle of @SaulofTarsus to his Followers on Instagram

by Clare Halpine

Dear brothers and hipsters, I, @SaulofTarsus, mimetically writing to you from my iPhone, do exhort you to excuse any exegetical errors. This week, suffering from #FOMO, all things became oppressive and dark—not in a Lo-Fi or Brennan kind of way, but in a terribly Normal kind of way. Aiming my . . . . Continue Reading »

6 May 2015

Beauty and Faith in the Age of Twitter

by Editors

Last week a study appeared in Computers and Human Behavior under the title “The brain in your pocket: Evidence that Smartphones are used to supplant thinking.” A summary of the findings in ScienceDaily bore the header “Reliance on smartphones linked to lazy thinking.” Researchers tested 660 subjects and found a clear correlation between high smartphone use and lower cognitive skills, especially “the willingness to think in an analytical way.” Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2015