Morals
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We Need Moral Direction August 15, 2024
There’s a lot of advice out there about anxiety, especially for young people. Anxious people need to do breathwork. We need to meditate more. Repeat positive affirmations. Almost none of it works.I think this is because we now use the word anxiety to...
Inside Out 2: Fluff, Hijinks—and the Right Message August 05, 2024
My generation’s worst habits are finally being put under the magnifying glass. Social media addiction is getting national attention, from the surgeon general of the United States advising a warning label, to some of the biggest school districts in th...
On Trying to Write a Novel August 05, 2024
I spend a lot of time suspicious of speculation. I have argued, in my academic and theological writing, that there is something inherently alienating about our human relationship with the artificial, with the imagined, with the unreal. I have taught ...
Joy Williams’s Beautiful Apocalypse August 01, 2024
The writer Joy Williams, whose latest book, Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael, was published July 2, has become one of our foremost scribes of environmental destruction and the moral and spiritual questions it raises. Animals and t...
