Featured Essays

Featured

The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

Cultivating Purpose and Discernment in a Computational World

Reflections on how ill-prepared our traditional moralities are for the world in which we live. The speed and spread of computational power is forcing a revaluation of values that we are not equipped to handle.

New Gods for a New Time

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Greg Laugero 4/14/26 Greg Laugero 4/14/26

Finding God in All Things

Written during a Jesuit retreat in Colorado, this essay reflects on spiritual direction, Ignatius’ call to find God in all things, and the Sermon on the Mount as a release of the spirit of the law from rigid codes. The Sermon becomes a meditation on excess, contingency, forgiveness, and the difficult work of orienting free energy toward the good.

Greg Laugero 9/16/24 Greg Laugero 9/16/24

At the Edge of le Grand Récit

An essay exploring Michel Serres’s engagement with Le Grand Récit and what narrative uncertainty means for ethical life in a world of multiplicity and contingent connection.