Rage Bait – “Online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account.” And the Oxford Word of the Year 2025 is… rage bait (Oxford University Press)
Fertility Decline – “The West’s demographic dearth is capturing the attention of growing numbers of public officials.” The Fertility Crisis Will Not Be Solved by Economics Alone (First Things)
Theists and Atheists – “Yesterday, the Yule Blog featured an essay about how theists and atheists are not all that different from each other; we are almost all transcendentalists in the sense that almost all of us find some kind of moral, ethical, and even spiritual meaning as we encounter the world.” Day 6: Personal Meaning (Providence)
Islam as a Governing Project – “Islam diverges significantly from Christianity, and in some ways that Karl Marx might have appreciated” Islam and Communism (Catholic Answers)
Return of the Strong Gods – “The ruler bears witness to the meaningfulness of reality, and in doing so he augments its meaning, opening up the world to the dimensions that would allow a properly human existence to unfold.” The Crisis of Authority (Communio)
Dead Sea Scrolls – “Long before the biblical canon was formally defined, these texts were copied, guarded and revered as sacred.” The Scriptures Jesus Knew: Stepping Into the World of the Dead Sea Scrolls (National Catholic Register)
Microscale Robots – “Engineers at Penn Engineering have created robots barely visible to the naked eye that operate without tethers, magnetic fields or joystick-like controls.” The world’s smallest programmable, autonomous robots (Penn Today)
Sacred Images – “All of it is oriented toward a kind of spiritual service, to try to provide a kind of mental framework for Christian life, that can actually be inhabited by modern people.” A Year of Sacred Images; An Inheritance We Can Still Inhabit (The Sacred Images Project)
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