The Internet’s Sins Are Our Sins. But It Shouldn’t Escape All Blame.
Americans tend to be optimists about technology. We see it as a means of progress, comfort, wealth, and discovery. And why not? Technology has treated us well, and very few among us would pooh-pooh the engine, the hot water heater, the refrigerator, the word processor, the text message. In technology—it might be a mild blasphemy Read more…
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We Have Never Been Deplorable
By the time Hilary Clinton “put half of Trump’s supporters” into “the basket of deplorables” in 2016, I confess I was frustrated enough to largely agree with her—even though she was talking about people I cared about in communities like mine. It seemed simple to me at the time: If you don’t want to be called Read more…
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The Internet’s Sins Are Our Sins. But It Shouldn’t Escape All Blame.
Americans tend to be optimists about technology. We see it as a means of progress, comfort, wealth, and discovery. And why not? Technology has treated us well, and very few among us would pooh-pooh the engine, the hot water heater, the refrigerator, the word processor, the text message. In technology—it might be a mild blasphemy Read more…
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Safety Shouldn’t Come First
You may be tempted to read The Pursuit of Safety: A Theology of Danger, Risk, and Security with an eye toward determining whether and to what extent its author, Wheaton College theologian Jeremy Lundgren, agrees with your own risk assessments and safety measures. Don’t. Though Lundgren leaves some hints about where he lands on discrete Read more…
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An Evangelical’s Warning to Evangelical Christian Nationalists Aims Beyond the Easy Targets
Donald Trump’s manifold sins and acts of wickedness are so numerous that they are almost too tedious to repeat. He is a danger to democracy, a would-be fascist who has promised that voting for him means never needing to vote again, and he fomented the worst event in recent American history, the January 6, 2021, Read more…
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God at the Bottom of the Glass
As a child I had no formal religious training. My parents were not opposed to faith, but they did not find it particularly relevant to daily life. At age five, I was sent to a local Episcopal church to sing in the boys’ choir so that I could learn music. I learned to love the Read more…
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