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By Ben Peterson, CCS Fellow The Center for Christian Studies is happy to congratulate Dr. Ben Peterson, CCS Fellow and guest editor of JCS II/2, "The Church and the Polis ," on the publication of his forthcoming book, Community, Character, and the Governance of the Social Commons: Sanctuaries of Order , set to be released in June of this year by Bloomsbury Academic. We are happy to share with our CCS community the preface to the book, included below! From the book descripti

Keith D. Stanglin In my previous post , I identified three truths about technology that are conveyed in many ancient stories.  First, technology always comes with negative, often unintended consequences; every technology does or undoes something.  Second, the people closest to the technology—its creators and purveyors—have the hardest time seeing or foreseeing those negative effects.  Third, they and the technophiles in charge have incentive to ignore or suppress those negati

Keith D. Stanglin When survivors of the great, primeval deluge decided to unite their efforts toward an innovative project, they said, “Come, let us make bricks” (Gen 11:3).  The oven-baked brick was a new invention, allowing builders to raise taller and stronger structures than ever before—in this case, a tower.  The people’s aim was to make a name for themselves and not to scatter (Gen 11:4).  The biblical text does not say exactly who was calling for the bricks and the con