Featured Essays

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

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

Metanoia and the Experience of Time: Beyond Repentance and the Practice of Change in Mark’s Gospel

This brief essay revisits metanoia in Mark’s Gospel as a radical change in our experience of time. This poetic reflection reframes one of Jesus’ first words — often mistranslated as ‘repent’ — as an invitation to loosen expectation and inhabit a time of possibilities.

Greg Laugero 8/31/23 Greg Laugero 8/31/23

A Tenth of a Second - Jimena Canales

Modernity didn’t just apply technologies of measuring time at more minute levels. Modernity and time measurement are bound together much more intimately.

Greg Laugero 8/20/23 Greg Laugero 8/20/23

Down to Earth - Bruno Latour

A highly accessible version of Facing Gaia. For me it is the classic statement of how the accumulation of wealth has become the latest expression of Gnosticism.

Greg Laugero 8/17/23 Greg Laugero 8/17/23

Cosmopolis - Stephen Toulmin

A very accessible understanding of how Modernity emerges out of the late Middle Ages as a desire for “certainties” arising out of the conflicts and terrors of the European violence of the seventeenth century.

Greg Laugero 8/16/23 Greg Laugero 8/16/23

Religion, Philosophy, Time

Greg Laugero 8/14/23 Greg Laugero 8/14/23

Tone as a Practice of Time

Greg Laugero 7/27/23 Greg Laugero 7/27/23

A New Soteriology

Greg Laugero 5/28/19 Greg Laugero 5/28/19

Rejoicing - Bruno Latour

A lesser known work of Latour’s that shouldn’t be. A very personal and remarkable understanding of what it means to be non-Modern and religious at the same time.

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