Michael J. Sauter is the manager of the retreat houses at the Trappist Abbey of the Genesee in Upstate New York. He also serves as Director of Catholic Campus Ministry at SUNY Geneseo.
In a nutshell, Degrowthers make a bold case that a future worth living is not about doing more with less, it’s about doing “less with less,” and it’s not at all hard to sense an idea whose time has come.
I worry about our ever-expanding cult of safety and nod in agreement with so much of sociologist Frank Furedi’s description of the “Paradox of our Safety Addiction.” He argues that “the zero risk mentality breeds a culture of anxiety and a hunger for authority.”
In short, we need to rely less on building rigid ideological superstructures and more on our guts, guts kept healthy by a diverse diet of conversation and friendship. We need to have more personal encounters and trust in the general “goodness” of people. In other words, we need to take the seriousness with which we treat this Left-Right stuff down a notch and lighten up!
A common and often valid critique of many families in the homeschooling movement is that, because of a lingering obsession on, and invisible competition...
New Directions for Catholic Social and Political Research: Humanity vs. Hyper-Modernity, Guido Preparata, (ed.) Palgrave MacMillan, 319 pages
The future is notoriously uncertain but nonetheless,...
“Nations die of softening of the brain, which, for a long time, passes for softening of the heart.”
“Democracy is only a continually shifting aristocracy...
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home
-- "Intimations of Immortality," William...
