The Humanitas Forum

The research is starting to come in!  And even the most ardent supporters of the Internet are having to rethink their enthusiasm for the world of “always connected.”

Since the arrival of the Internet, there have been questions …

The Amish are anything but anti-technology.  “I have found them to be ingenious hackers and tinkers, the ultimate makers and do-it-yourselfers and surprisingly pro-technology,” writes Kevin Kelly.

If you know something about Kevin Kelly, he may be the …

Sometimes people need to change their minds, especially when spurred by additional information, insight and wisdom.  But change requires courage when it requires modifying a public stance.

In April 1996 Sherry Turkle was featured on the cover of Wired…

Pico Iyer travels the world.  His travel books include reflections on such exotic places as Kathmandu and Asunción.  His novels have been translated into Turkish, Russian, and Indonesian.  Yet, he’s not what you might expect.  He’s …

I don’t think, I skim!

“The internet is certainly changing the way that we get information.  Is it changing the way we think?”

Aimee Byrd is a mother of three and a good example of what all …

Privately engaging but socially irrelevant!

This is how one evangelical leader described (in 1983) the spiritual life of the evangelical and conservative wing of Christianity.  The faith of these Christians has had no significant impact on the broader …

In the postscript to The Christian Mind, Harry Blamires suggests a proper view of the relationship of the devotional life to the Christian mind.

[W]ill the Christians of the next fifty years, over against a strengthened secularism, deepen and

“There is no longer a Christian mind.”

We speak of ‘the modern mind’ and of ‘the scientific mind,’ using the word mind of a collectively accepted set of notions and attitudes. … [I]n contradistinction to the secular mind, no vital

“The Christian church has been guilty of a great abdication.”

Somehow, we’ve forgotten that art, beauty, and the imagination are important to the life of the Church—to the life of the Church as the Church and to the life of …

“The person who reads bad books instead of good may be subtly corrupted; the person who reads nothing at all maybe forever adrift in life unless he lives in a community still powerfully influenced by … ‘moral habits’ and by oral …