How can we respond faithfully to immigration in an age of viral images, tribal politics, and 24/7 media? Four unlikely guides—Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Marshall McLuhan, and Mortimer Adler—offer wisdom for seeing, judging, and acting with justice and mercy. The Ahmed Family’s Arrival Imagine a family—let’s call them the Ahmeds. They could be from any... Continue Reading →
Part Two: The Bridge Merton Built.
Part Two: The Bridge Merton Built: How to Actually Read Catholic Social Teaching Here's what Merton understood that most of us miss: Catholic Social Teaching isn't a textbook. It's a way of seeing. When he read those insightful encyclicals—the ones that make your eyes glaze over in theology/religion class—he wasn't looking for bullet points to... Continue Reading →
The Plastic Crisis: By Julie Peller Ph.D.
Green Junction Nurdles are the plastic pellets made by the polymer industry. Their average diameter is 2-5 mm. The larger ones are similar in size to a pencil eraser. Every year, trillions (or more) of nurdles are shipped from the industries to companies that make plastic items. Large numbers of these small, light-weight pellets are... Continue Reading →
Part One: When the Monk Met the Encyclicals and then Met the Machine.
When the Monk Met the Machine: Thomas Merton, Catholic Social Teaching, and Our Tech-Saturated World We live in a world Thomas Merton never saw—but somehow anticipated. Merton died in 1968, before personal computers, before smartphones, before algorithms decided what we read and AI began writing our emails. Yet his warnings feel more urgent now than... Continue Reading →
Wired for Peace
Wired for Peace Faith, Technology, and the Nonviolent Imagination in an Age of AI Let's begin with this thought: Think about the last thing you looked at on your phone before you started reading this blog post. Maybe it was a news headline that made your stomach drop. Maybe it was a message from someone... Continue Reading →
Is Your Faith Becoming a Weapon?: What Two 20th Century Prophets Would Tell Us About Christian Nationalism
Is Your Faith Becoming a Weapon?: What Two 20th Century Prophets Would Tell Us About Christian Nationalism If you cut through the noise of cable news and social media arguments, you might hear two voices from the last century that have something urgent to say to us right now. One belongs to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German... Continue Reading →
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