Jesus himself was merely “the Nazarene” to those who wanted to denigrate him.
Nathan Schneider
Nathan Schneider is a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life and God in Proof: The Story of a Search From the Ancients to the Internet.
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Breaking up with Amazon is hard to do
We can do better than thinking of ourselves as “consumers.”
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The shooting of Michael Brown is not ready to go down into history.
A report from the spot where Michael Brown died—a memorial of flowers, candles and mostly toys.
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Pontifex Economicus
The subtitle of Pope Francis’ stunning new encyclical, “‘Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home,” belies the preference of some that a pontiff not venture into economic matters—Jeb Bush, for instance. Etymologically, after all, economics is the discipline of man
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The Church and the World: A Prehistory of ‘Laudato Si”
A question that has arisen in the wake of Pope Francis 39 new encyclical is of whether its plea for the rights and dignity of creation is continuous with Catholic teaching thus far or an innovation Is the pope teaching something new or old To understand the story better I spoke by phone with F
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The Mood of ‘Laudato Si’’: A Reply
Pope Francis seems to resist the temptation of some to read his exhortation as a downer.
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Eight Ingredients of the First Third World Encyclical
‘Laudato Si” comes from a non-European. What difference does this make?
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An Encyclical Alone Won’t Save the Planet
Are some of those anticipating the pope’s message most in for a disappointment?
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The Choreography in Rome
Women kept at a distance during Pope Francis’ Corpus Christi Mass
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Slow Computing
The important question is not whether to use new technologies, but which to use, and how.