Featured

From Scrolls to Scrolling in Synagogue
The way we read scripture has changed. Or has it?
J. L. Wall
Essay
Computers Can’t Do Math
The human mind is a marvel that no machine has matched.
David Schaengold
Essay
Taming Tech in Community
How the Bruderhof community tries to be intentional about personal technology.
Andrew Zimmerman
Essay
The Tech of Prison Parenting
Even a little technology can make a big difference.
Robert Lee Williams
Essay
Will There Be an AI Apocalypse?
Marshall McLuhan and Romano Guardini say it’s already here.
Peter Berkman
Essay
Tech Cities of the Bible
Our struggle with technology starts in Genesis.
Alastair Roberts
Essay

Insights

Give Me a Place
An East Tennessee farmer praises a simple piece of technology.
Brian Miller
Essay
Send Us Your Surplus
South Sudan’s kids thank you for that shipment of hip-joint ball bearings.
Matthew Loftus
Report
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
ChatGPT Goes to Church
Should large language models write sermons and prayers?
Arlie Coles
Essay

Web Exclusives

Humans Are Magnificent
A philosopher defends humanity against its detractors.
Johannes Hartl
Who Needs a Car?
When luxuries become necessities, it’s too late to turn back.
Addison Del Mastro
Jacques Ellul, Prophet of the Tech Age
A Christian outlook helps us to weather the technological society.
Joshua J. Whitfield
It’s Getting Harder to Die
When medical tech can keep us alive, families face tough choices.
Lydia S. Dugdale

Arts & Letters

Blackberry Hush in Memory Lane
Read the poem that won Plough’s 2024 Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award.
Jennifer Fair Stewart
Poetry
A Lindisfarne Cross
It begins with what is broken, cast off, abandoned...
Michael Manning
Poetry
Fingered Forgiveness
The poet tells a story of forgiveness.
Laura R. Eckman
Poetry
God’s Grandeur: A Poetry Comic
A comic artist illustrates Gerard Manley Hopkins’s classic poem.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Julian Peters
Poetry
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’ Picks
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’ Picks
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’ Picks
A Church in Ukraine Spreads Hope in Wartime
A Christian community cares for its children and neighbors.
Sasha Riabyi
Danny Burrows
Portfolio
Toward a Gift Economy
Some goods and services have value beyond their market price.
Simon Oliver
Essay