Kechi Ladapo
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Kechi Ladapo
Probing a text can be enjoyable but also tiring, even borderline painful. That’s good. Exhausting our mental faculties, such as through deep reading or effortful writing, is what makes them more potent. Physical exercise works the same way. AI, by contrast, promises knowledge without effort, just as many people see in GLP-1 drugs the possibility of
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To read slowly, attentively, without agenda or distraction is to resist. Not with noise or spectacle, but with the quiet, deliberate force of contemplation. In an economy built on speed and stimulus, deep reading becomes an act of principled refusal. It defies the algorithm’s logic of efficiency, the newsfeed’s velocity, the platform’s hunger for... See more
Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
Catechized for Beatitude: Theology as Initiation and Apprenticeship
Explores the purpose of catechesis as initiation and apprenticeship in the divine mysteries, emphasizing the beatific vision as the ultimate goal of Christian education and spiritual formation.
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Why Evangelicalism Is Built for TikTok
“The world of branding calls for clean, simple, and straightforward messages voiced by a caricature of yourself. The call to wholeness often invites the messy, nuanced, and incommunicable within/around you. You're not doing it wrong. You (and your world) are beautifully complex.”
—Rose J Percy, from Twitter, 7/11/22