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What the machines are doing to the human person.
Two days after Hitler became chancellor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned on Berlin radio that a leader who answers to no one becomes an idol, and the microphone went dead before he finished. Merton, McLuhan, and Bonhoeffer on the pathologies of Christian nationalism.
Part Two of three. Twelve printers who defied the Gestapo, a London march under wooden crosses, a British poll that describes a Lutheran who attends Easter and funerals, and a parish study group that learns to wait a day.
A coal hauler who could not read, a son's vow at his deathbed, and the two words that open the Our Father: reading the Lord's Prayer through See-Judge-Act in an age of political division and artificial intelligence.
This is the first of three parts. It follows a parish study group, a challenging word, and an election that won’t wait. Come back each Wednesday for the next two weeks to follow the story as it unfolds, one part at a time. In early April 1962, a congressman named Frank Kowalski, worried about the... Continue Reading →
Liberation theology, libertarian theology, and the question neither side is allowed to stop asking. By thirty-two, he was known as a poet, an artist, and a writer in two countries, and he traveled to Kentucky planning to stop writing altogether. In 1957 he joined the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani as a novice. The... Continue Reading →
Why the autonomous revolution needs comparative religion more than another ethical framework In 1236, Korea’s government had relocated to an island. Five years earlier, Mongol cavalry crossed Korea’s northern border. King Gojong’s court fled the mainland capital for Ganghwa, a tidal island safe from the horsemen. On the mainland, the invaders burned everything they encountered,... Continue Reading →
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