How different is the smartphone age from centuries past?

Great post about the plusses and minuses of computer-assisted meditation by my college buddy, Zach Schlosser.

“Finally, an excuse to pull up the drawbridge, watch cartoons, and sleep all day!”

Last night I realized I am a huge bummer at parties.

It seems absolutely insane to me that anyone would ever want to be surprised by an opportunity to watch a video.

This guy makes beautiful mandalas out of found natural objects, fusing nature’s order and human order.

If this post seems “New Age” to you, then that proves my point.

Sinai’s MLK service lets us praise and remember and celebrate the ongoing civil rights struggle on our day of rest, charging us up for Monday’s work.

This article adds a couple fascinating subtleties to the wide open question of how parents’ smartphones are affecting this generation of children.

Y’all know I love spirituality apps, especially ones that help facilitate daily rituals. But I do think there’s a line such apps can cross where they become uncomfortable for me.

In today’s astonishing breaking news update, blithe journalists continue to propagate the research of academics who barely understand online life.

As the joyous wedding party hashtag this weekend demonstrated, people are figuring out how to wield their newfound connectivity in ways that are simultaneously fun and careful.

This is the first time I’ve felt strong resistance to writing a Shabbat message. Religion is not doing well in the media right now.

The more I think about the human-like identity nodes and Personal Brands™ I interact with on a daily basis, the more I see this: the only ones who feel uncool to me are those who conspicuously pretend they aren’t faking it.

It’s worth reading just because it’s about a great movie, Aliens, but it also contains a delicious analysis of how technology becomes culture and vice versa.

I never said I was one of those gadget-averse mindfulness writers. Yes, any new device brings potential for distraction. Yes, consumerism is wasteful and destructive. Did any of that suddenly become true when mobile computers were invented? No.