Finding Meaning

Spiritual chatbot apps have garnered millions of downloads. These AI-powered religious apps, like Bible Chat and Hallow, mimic conversations with clergy and are shaping how people think about deeply existential ideas, like salvation. People are paying up to $70 a year for subscriptions to these platforms to access instant, personalized spiritual... See more

TREND RADAR #9

“There’s an inherent theatricality to church,” writes the critic Alissa Wilkinson, “and a furtive spirituality to theater. In form, they’re similar: Everybody crowds into a room, usually sits facing the same direction, and focuses on a central action — at least for a while.” Alissa uses those parallels to explore a number of recent shows that dance

The Morning: Our election guide

To be human is to yearn for a Sky Daddy. Something that explains the unexplainable, someone to blame. No wonder, then, that in the ZIRP-fueled 2010s, when a new gospel of creation was being spread, some people started to see technology as a kind of religion. And on the eighth day, He made a mobile app that delivered us our daily bread —that sort of... See more

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Intellectualizing Memes

Mama a phd behind you

Decline in education

Distrust in facts

Online PHD

Academia is struggling, lack of funding

October Articles

A wildly popular 15-year-old computer whiz is becoming the Catholic Church's first millennial saint (AP News)

Carlo Acutis, a teenage Italian computer whiz who died in 2006, is set to become history's first millennial saint, generating a global following among young Catholics and inspiring a relatable, modern-day role model. His use of technology to... See more

Silence, Brand! 09.08.25

In the face of rejection, some are turning to religion. This week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan published an op-ed in the New York Post (...so many questions) about the revival of Catholicism among young people. He points to both local and global examples: crowds of students and teenagers at events in Rome, young adults lining up for confession at St.... See more

Unknown • Accessory-ception and Job Hugging

the oversecularization and undersocialization of modern children

New Tween Roblox Cult Just Dropped

We do not live in a godless world. Rather, we live in a profoundly anti-institutional one, where the proliferation of Internet creative culture and consumer capitalism have rendered us all simultaneously parishioner, high priest, and deity. America is not secular but simply spiritually self-focused.

Tara Isabella Burton • Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

A religion of emotive intuition, of aestheticized and commodified experience, of self-creation and self-improvement and, yes, selfies. A religion for a new generation of Americans raised to think of themselves both as capitalist consumers and as content creators. A religion decoupled from institutions, from creeds, from metaphysical truth-claims