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Matthew SchultzTechnologyFormationMagnifica Humanitas

The Kiln of Proceduralism: On the Failures of Magnifica Humanitas

Soon Leo will be dialoguing with a people formed by a machine intelligence that propagates counterfeit inhabitation, one that accustoms people to experience Christianity by asking a chatbot to teach them the Nicene Creed. Is he ready for that? Are we?

CultureFormationEddie LaRow

Even in the Agony of Despondency

Lincoln was a great man and leader not despite his frequent melancholy, but because he kept going even under the weight of melancholy.

TechnologyFormationHayden NesbitMagnifica Humanitas

When Christoff Meets Pope Leo

The experience of resonance will not be manufactured by tech overlords.

TechnologyFamilyFormationIsaac DeValois

How My Family Uses Yoto to Teach Our Kids the Faith

Christian families will be greatly helped by this little device for its simple and convenient opportunity to help conduct catechesis.

Elizabeth SticeFormation

The Case for Copying 'The Imitation of Christ' by Hand

For most of church history, we internalized key texts by transcribing them. One great books prof has brought that practice back to her students.

John AhernFormation

Why Christian Scholars Need the Psalms

We must build institutions that seek to form Christian minds according to Scripture. If we don’t, it will be done anyway, but not in ways we want.

Steven WillingFormation

A Taxonomy of Pride in 'The Great Divorce'

Lewis's 'The Great Divorce' offers a bracing and disturbing series of portraits all showing different forms of pride and its fruit.

Vika PecherskyBook ReviewsFormation

The Miracle of Communion: to Know and to Love as God

'The Brothers Karamazov' shows a moment in which two people encounter each other not as objects of conquest but as beloved subjects and common persons.

Stephen WilliamsFormation

12 Theses on Fasting and Feasting

Being able to distinguish between different fasts and disciplines and practice them well can help us to grow in our piety and Christian maturity.

Chase KrugFamilyFormation

A 'Personless' Purity Isn't Pure At All

Marriage is not a container in which lust, if directed only at one's spouse, becomes moral. Chastity means refusing to reduce anyone to a sexual object.

Brianna LambertBook ReviewsFormation

The Beholders

An excerpt from Brianna Lambert's new book 'Created to Play'

Michael PorterChurchHealth & MedicineFormation

The Church, the Medical Profession, and Applied Ethics

Because we have lost the idea of medicine as a profession we have lost a clear idea of what medicine is actually for.