The real promise of “digital discipleship” should not prevent Christians from engaging in honest conversations about the harms of technology, especially to children.
Social Media
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
Finding God in all things—even the Times Square Ferris wheel
Or at least trying to.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
John Mulaney has fallen off his nice-guy pedestal—and he might have something to teach the Catholic Church.
To have John Mulaney dump his wife, leap into a celebrity romance and become a baby daddy all in a couple months feels like a complete betrayal to many of his fans. Catholics know that feeling well.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Yes, God will judge you for your Tweets.
We will be held accountable by God for our tweets and our posts and our gossip, Father Josh Johnson says on the Gloria Purvis Podcast. So we need to have custody of our tongues and custody of our thumbs.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Facebook wants you to pray with them. Don’t trust their intentions.
Facebook’s new prayer feature seems much more likely to invite us to turn further inward into that social media hellscape of narcissism and self-promotion. Pray for us, indeed.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Is your smartphone making you sin more? Consider a technological examination of conscience.
Summer is a good season to take stock of how our dependence on technology can change us. Here are seven steps for seeing your smartphone more clearly.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
After the Pillar ‘outed’ a priest, how much privacy should lay Catholics expect on social media?
Many are no doubt pleased with revelations that expose the hypocrisy of a Catholic priest—again. But what does this incident mean for the rest of us?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
What we do and don’t know about the methods used to track the Grindr habits of a top USCCB priest
Some experts say the level of detail included in the story suggests that whoever provided the information has access to large datasets and methods of analysis that could have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars—or more.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Tabloids, scandal and spying: The U.S. Catholic Church has hit a new, dangerous low point.
Rare is the story that manages to be so depressing in so many ways. A recent report about a Catholic priest allegedly using an app for sexual activity is one of them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Reporting on religion can be dark. But we need people on the God Beat more than ever.
The best essays in ‘The God Beat’ are quietly reflective, deeply informed, subjective but not solipsistic.