The Internet Isn’t Broken
by Mark BauerleinThe more opinions are out there in the world, the less each one matters, including the best ones. Continue Reading »
Living Communally in God's Good Creation
by David T. KoyzisThe Benedict Option: Whatever we label it, it is something to which all Christians everywhere are called. Continue Reading »
Kink is Not Conscience
by Samuel D. JamesTrying to argue for intellectual diversity and good faith by sticking up for kink is like trying to get high-school students excited about reading Romeo and Juliet by comparing it to Fifty Shades of Grey—it’s not just ridiculous, but dishonest. Continue Reading »
Generation Z: Desperate for Rules
by Betsy VanDenBergheAbiding by moral rules, especially when they are explained meaningfully and mercifully, gives teenagers swimming in a sea of relativism and nihilism a “moral vocabulary.” Sympathy isn’t enough. People need norms. Continue Reading »
Our Own Devices
by Joseph ClairA flickering glow welcomed me to my university’s chapel service. Votive candles? If only. Continue Reading »
Quotidian Wonder
by Cassandra NelsonZero Kby don delilloscribner, 288 pages, $26In 2013, Jonathan Safran Foer claimed that “Only those with no imagination, and no grounding in reality, would deny the possibility that they will live forever. It’s possible that many reading these words will never die.” Many other intelligent, . . . . Continue Reading »
A More Perfect Absolutism
by Michael HanbyIt is part of the absurdity of American life that we decide questions of truth under the guise of settling contests of rights. Which means that we decide questions of truth without thinking deeply or even very honestly about them. Thus, while it is obvious to many that we are living through a . . . . Continue Reading »
Lectio Divina and the Facebook Newsfeed
by Br. Michael BaggotThe 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 »
The Digital Triptych
by Br. Michael BaggotA millennial recently bragged to my friend that he no longer has much reason to leave the comfort of his basement office. There, he enjoys a tri-screen computer setup and can simultaneously manage his business, view porn, and compete in online gaming tournaments from a single cushioned reclining chair. Continue Reading »
Cryogenic Monks
by Richard T. WhittingtonDon DeLillo's novels suggest that the fundamental yearning that underlies all action, the creation and the destruction of civilizations, is the yearning to escape personal mortality. But the feats of modern science have tempted some to believe that science can defy human mortality altogether. Continue Reading »
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