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An Unlikely Meditation on Modern Happiness

by Ryan Kemp
Posted on February 3, 2022
Image: The Sacrifice of Isaac. Wellcome Collection. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Well, then, why—on Kierkegaard’s view—would anyone choose a life of faith?

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On Attentional Norms

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on February 8, 2022
Image: Gabriel Benois via Unsplash.com.

Zoom is a medium that offers constant permission to be distracted.

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The Unintended Consequences of Christian Politics

by Myles Werntz
Posted on February 10, 2022
Image: Steve Pavey, Hope in Focus, stevepavey.com.

Mainline Protestant ministries to migrants had unintentionally opened the door to their diminished cultural dominance

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The Making of an Everyday Object in a High-Tech World

by Richard Hughes Gibson
Posted on February 18, 2022
Image: Worker at Amazon Logistics Center in Madrid, Spain; Álvaro Ibáñez via Wikimedia Commons.

Just as Mims worries now over the unfulfilling tedium of employment at Amazon, Smith worried over the deleterious effects of monotonous work.

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