Can we learn to see gender in its real complexity?
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.
Posted inFaith, Features
Have Catholics been praying the Our Father all wrong?
Catholics, that is to say, have not necessarily been praying the Our Father wrongly, but too often we have not been praying it fully, either. While we are busy trying to get it right, we neglect to make it our own and discover its vast permutations.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How can we honor Martin Luther King Jr.? Defund (while respecting) the police
Now is an opportune time to do the right thing—to defund the police and invest in a diversified strategy for public safety and well-being.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We know what caused the Colorado fire—and we need to say it: Climate change
My neighbors lost homes because our political and economic institutions have failed to respond to a crisis they have long known was coming.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Chosen’ dares to imagine stories about Jesus and the disciples that aren’t in the Gospels. It’s a revelation.
Jonathan Roumie’s Jesus has fearsome power to open the Scriptures to us and the women and men who follow him are people in whom we can find traces of ourselves. It helps me love the Lord like I never have before.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
NFTs are leading to a new financial dystopia. Here’s why you should care.
This latest phase of capitalism has a feeling of déjà vu from its first stage—except rather than speculating on colonial land-grabs and the bodies of slaves, NFTs are making commodities of famous people and GIFs.
Posted inPolitics & Society, What Coronavirus Taught Us
What Coronavirus Taught Us about Technology
Online Mass has connected us to a wider church, but it will not replace our local parish.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Our world is ripe for revolution. 10 years after Occupy and the Arab Spring, what have we learned?
After all the hope I and others felt as the story of 2011 swept across the world, the accounting of the decade since leans mightily toward disaster.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The assault on the Capitol was horrific. But occupying a legislature can be a legitimate act of protest.
It is worth remembering that occupying a legislature can be an act of democracy. We in the United States might need to do it again.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
This election is a referendum on who is allowed to break the law
Trump calls himself the “law and order” president. But his “law and order” is a promise for some at the expense of others.