Today living a simple life is enough to make one seem like a radical.
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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A Global Catholic Climate Movement, None Too Soon
It’s fitting that the GCCM has chosen the Philippines, not New York, as its starting point.
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The Police and the Priests
Do two powerful institutions have systemic problems in common?
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When Bibles Broke the Cuba Blockade
Fidel Castro meets el hombre de la Biblia
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Theologians Call a Fast for Ferguson—and More
Has the time come for a truth and reconciliation commission on racial justice?
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White Catholic Climate Denial is a Crisis Waiting to Happen
It rsquo s a common caricature that climate change is a boutique cause a kind of luxury that concerns only those who can afford a new Prius A lot of the most visible faces in the climate movement mdash Al Gore Bill McKibben Naomi Klein mdash imply a demographic that is white affluent and seemi
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I Was Wrong About Catholic Co-ops
Supporting business models that keep wealth in the communities and families that generate it
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Co-opting Catholics
Do Catholics recognize the moral imperative to build the economy cooperatively?
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Simone Weil’s Guide to the Election
Would abolishing political parties revive the American political spirit?
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Catholics and Climate Divestment: An Update
We may be learning to see and to value our commons again In my last print column for America I wrote about the intersection between Catholic tradition and the notion of the commons mdash a kind of economy in which shared treasures are governed by those who depend on them not by a state or market