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Closeup of ancient parchment scroll with Hebrew text written in black ink.
From Scrolls to Scrolling in Synagogue
The way we read scripture has changed. Or has it?
J. L. Wall
Essay
Three colorful glass marbles casting shadows on a vintage punched card with numbered rows.
Computers Can’t Do Math
The human mind is a marvel that no machine has matched.
David Schaengold
Essay
Wall mosaic of a bird made from colorful ceramic tiles on a white tiled background.
Taming Tech in Community
How the Bruderhof community tries to be intentional about personal technology.
Andrew Zimmerman
Essay
Man and woman in darkness connected by glowing orange line between their phones across torn white gap.
The Tech of Prison Parenting
Even a little technology can make a big difference.
Robert Lee Williams
Essay
Black and white photo of a man leaning on a TV showing a smaller image of his face.
Will There Be an AI Apocalypse?
Marshall McLuhan and Romano Guardini say it’s already here.
Peter Berkman
Essay
Dense urban cityscape with tall buildings, a crowd of people with umbrellas, and scattered paper debris in the air.
Tech Cities of the Bible
Our struggle with technology starts in Genesis.
Alastair Roberts
Essay

Insights

Man in a red shirt and hat standing in field holding a long wooden pole across his shoulders.
Give Me a Place
An East Tennessee farmer praises a simple piece of technology.
Brian Miller
Essay
Group unloading cardboard boxes from two trucks outdoors with trees and vehicles in the background.
Send Us Your Surplus
South Sudan’s kids thank you for that shipment of hip-joint ball bearings.
Matthew Loftus
Report
Collage of a man against torn and layered paper shapes in red, green, yellow, and orange on textured background.
Masters of Our Tools
Four writers reflect on the purpose and power of technology.
E F Schumacher
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Jean Pierre Dupuy
Hannah Arendt
Reading
Close-up of a white robot face showing a mechanical eye with a colorful stained-glass design inside.
ChatGPT Goes to Church
Should large language models write sermons and prayers?
Arlie Coles
Essay

Web Exclusives

Close-up black and white photo of an older man with curly hair wearing a wide-brimmed hat.
Humans Are Magnificent
A philosopher defends humanity against its detractors.
Johannes Hartl
Night street scene with blurred car headlights and a blurred pedestrian crossing the road.
Who Needs a Car?
When luxuries become necessities, it’s too late to turn back.
Addison Del Mastro
View looking up at tall modern skyscrapers under a pale sky.
Jacques Ellul, Prophet of the Tech Age
A Christian outlook helps us to weather the technological society.
Joshua J. Whitfield
Illustration of doctors examining a stylized heart with ECG lines and data symbols around.
It’s Getting Harder to Die
When medical tech can keep us alive, families face tough choices.
Lydia S. Dugdale

Arts & Letters

Close-up of green leaves and small yellow flowers in a botanical illustration.
Blackberry Hush in Memory Lane
Read the poem that won Plough’s 2024 Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award.
Jennifer Fair Stewart
Poetry
Close-up of colorful sea glass and pebbles on a beach with water and rocky cliffs in background.
A Lindisfarne Cross
It begins with what is broken, cast off, abandoned...
Michael Manning
Poetry
Blurry image of two people standing near water, one wearing red and the other in lighter clothing.
Fingered Forgiveness
The poet tells a story of forgiveness.
Laura R. Eckman
Poetry
Watercolor painting of white storks nesting on top of a tall chimney against a colorful sky.
God’s Grandeur: A Poetry Comic
A comic artist illustrates Gerard Manley Hopkins’s classic poem.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Julian Peters
Poetry
Book cover of Birding to Change the World by Trish O'Kane surrounded by illustrated birds on a light blue background.
Birding Can Change You
In Birding to Change the World, Trish O’Kane describes how birding changed her life following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Ragan Sutterfield
Editors’ Pick
Book cover of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride with abstract person illustration.
Disability in The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
As a deaf reader, I was drawn toward the portrayals of disability in James McBride’s blockbuster novel, though, as in life, the results are an uneven weave.
Sara Nović
Editors’ Pick
In Praise of Excess
In All Things Are Too Small, Becca Rothfeld makes the case for a more infinite view of the world and rejects the smallness and minimalism of the current age.
Alan Koppschall
Editors’ Pick
Two children in orange shirts holding a large colorful drawing indoors with adults in the background.
A Church in Ukraine Spreads Hope in Wartime
A Christian community cares for its children and neighbors.
Sasha Riabyi
Danny Burrows
Portfolio
Impressionist-style painting of a table with juice bottle, bread, glasses, and jars.
Toward a Gift Economy
Some goods and services have value beyond their market price.
Simon Oliver
Essay