Category: Posts
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March 11 Laudato Si event
On March 11, join me for a panel celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ encyclical on “integral ecology.” I’ll be echoing Francis’s insistence that, despite what it might seem, “Truly, much can be done!” https://www.jcu.edu/livable-future
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Recruiting teaching professors
Are you passionate about teaching media literacy? My lovely little department is hiring TWO teaching professors in multi-year, renewable positions: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Teaching-Professor-of-Media-Studies/61458
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Why to read Governable Spaces now
My aunt texted: “Perhaps now is the time for super shameless promotion of Governable Spaces. The audience won’t need any handholding to get it.” I don’t know if it is true, but see for yourself: https://ntnsndr.in/govbook
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Poverty and the good life
“The goal for Christians should be not the elimination of poverty—Jesus said that is futile, anyway—but actually to encourage more of it.” My latest in America Magazine: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/02/13/christian-poverty-dignity-249696
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BSOL in Boulder
This Tuesday night in Boulder, join me at a release event for the new book Beautiful Solutions—hear updates from leaders in Colorado’s solidarity economy: https://www.tridentcafe.com/events/2025/2/4/trident-author-series-nathan-schneider
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Gender ideology redux
Now that “gender ideology” is a central concept of White House policy, it might be worth revisiting my 2023 article on the term’s origins among my co-religionists, and why it is a corruption of our faith: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/11/16/gender-ideology-catholic-246515
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WNV FTW
If you’re looking for grounded writing on strategies for the current political moment, get to know Waging Nonviolence. It’s a news platform I co-founded in 2009 and still serve on the board of, but real credit is to the team & writers making it thrive now: https://wagingnonviolence.org/
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Beautiful Solutions in Boulder—next week
A week from today, join me at Boulder’s worker-owned Trident bookstore to launch the new book Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation: https://www.tridentcafe.com/events/2025/2/4/trident-author-series-nathan-schneider Featuring two greats: Yessica Holguin and Minsun Ji.
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Two events in Boulder
2 events in Boulder I’m super excited about: 1/28 master class by the great tech activist Coraline Ada Ehmke:https://vast.colorado.edu/coraline-ada-ehmke/ 2/4 launch of my book Beautiful Solutions with two solidarity economy leaders, Yessica Holguin and Minsun Ji, at the worker-owned Trident bookstore:https://www.tridentcafe.com/events/2025/2/4/trident-author-series-nathan-schneider Join us!
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Accounting for Words
In which I follow Ivan Illich down a thought experiment about what it would look like to tabulate the cost of inventing words, and price out my own coinages. “An Accounting for Words,” just out in Flaming Hydra: https://flaminghydra.com/an-accounting-for-words/