The Stump

How much longer will we prioritize a Wild West notion of freedom over protecting children and teens? The truth is, like cigarettes and alcohol, these devices are incompatible with healthy childhood development.

It's entirely possible that many will give up human relationships, turning instead to the safety and predictability of technology, like an AI companion

Over the decades, I suppose I learned a lot from podcasts; plenty of facts and all the “sides” to stories. Very little of those things seem to matter to me now

The politics of Jesus are “brutally modest.” “Jesus’ life seems to have been mostly one of local, familial labor and relations, carried out in the compass of a small town or village…

But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love

We all have the power to name ourselves—collectively, not individually

As my hibernal title indicates, my sense is that this trajectory will be difficult.

It’s time to give the kids a better life script, to give them something more to aspire to than slumping over a screen for the rest of their lives.

This year the big boys dominated.

Above all, our culture needs an inward right. We need a right wing concerned with the soul and its restoration.

But there still remains room for us to read books in community today

Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.