I went to Detroit last week looking for the concrete for the tangible stuff I rsquo d heard was there mdash guerrilla farms carved into abandoned lots foreclosed homes turned into communes and other such peeks into the apocalyptic future that maybe other cities have coming their way when the Ameri
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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What Part of ‘the Right to Organize’ Don’t Some Religious Institutions Understand?
Joshua Davis rsquo s two-year-old son has congenital talipes equinovarus or club foot and the treatment requires him to wear specialized orthopedic shoes to bed He recently outgrew his current shoes and needs a new pair However the health insurance that covers him comes through his father rsquo
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Commons Sense
Commoning was an economic system built around meeting the needs of the poor.
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Notes on Love and the Islamic State
Jesus once said something about loving our enemies That rsquo s a hard thing to do and it is especially hard with an enemy as vicious as the Islamic State Yet there have been times mostly late at night when I think I rsquo ve made some progress in doing so Maybe I rsquo m being tricked by the
Posted inSynod on the Family
Family Portraits: Discussion starters for the upcoming synod
Editor’s Note. “Families,” Pope Francis noted in a homily on Sept. 14, “are the first place in which we are formed as persons and, at the same time, the ‘bricks’ for the building up of society.” In preparation for the launch of the Synod of Bishops on the Fa
Posted inIn All Things
How Catholics Are Confronting Climate Change This Week, With or Without the Bishops
Paul Mayer who succumbed to cancer last November had a knack for noticing a moral crisis He might have learned it from his German-Jewish parents who whisked him from Frankfurt to New York just before Kristallnacht He grew up to become a Catholic and a Benedictine priest only to leave the clois
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A Criminal Injustice System
Blacks and Hispanics make up almost 60 percent of the prison population.