cultural commentary

09
Sep
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Tending Forests We Will Never Walk: Cathedral Thinking in an Age of Anxiety

We live in a culture that treats mortality as a design flaw. By recovering "cathedral thinking"—conceiving work designed to outlast our own expiration date—we can shift from anxious consumers to long-term stewards, planting forests we will never walk.
4 min read
08
Jun
Photo showing consumerism and all its purchases amid a crowded, clutter room full of boxes with a man sitting in the middle.

The Modern Religion of More

We live in the pews of a new global faith: The Modern Religion of More. It tells us that peace is found in accumulation, but it leaves us spiritually starved and terrified of the horizon of death. It is time to turn our gaze radically, unconditionally inward.
7 min read