Our uptake of technology has been so rapid that we are losing the ability to notice how it feels to live this way. Occasionally, in therapeutic conversations, a patient can get in touch with these feelings. It often looks like grief. — From my recent New York Times op-ed

This is the only viable pathway if we are to remain in touch with our humanness and to preserve love, empathy, emotional and spiritual richness, and the capacity to create art and music that reflect our inner lives. — from my recent New York Times op-ed

To tackle the problems of technology we have to return to our emotional lives for their own sake, and not always leap to doing or changing or fixing.

#Religious and Cultural Implications of #Technology-Mediated Relationships in a Post-#Pandemic World ILIA DELIO @CChristogenesis ; NOREEN HERZFELD @NoreenHerzfeld AND ROBERT NICASTRO FOREWORD BY @barrieanthony @nheller @devinps @RLPGBooks #Book https://t.co/yPRKKf2AxJ

From my forward—this book demonstrates PTTP’s argument: that religion scholars have vital roles to play in helping us understand & navigate the impacts technologies are exerting in real time across all strata of human experience #TechAndPresence @HLuceFdn

Great new book supported by PTTP! Editors @iliadelio @NoreenHerzfeld R Nicastro, chapters from PTTP scholars such as @nheller, Amy Sue Bix, Beverley McGuire, Kevin Healey, @devinps, @barrieanthony. Excerpts to follow! #TechAndPresence @HLuceFdn @ShinIBS

Thanks @Occidental for including @DickAndersonOxy's great story about the Public Theologies of Technology and Presence research and journalism initiative in your roundup of top stories from 2022! @HLuceFdn #TechAndPresence

(2/2) ...and rather about a focus on spiritual dimensions as providing us new ways of talking about some of the deeper and more meaningful parts of the #work for both #patients and #analysts."

(1/2) As we note in the Epilogue, we were struck, in editing this fascinating set of papers, at how "this project of foregrounding the spiritual seems to be less about exploring rare and discrete emergences of the #sacred seen as important but peripheral to core analytic work...

#Therapists and #religion #scholars! Check out @psyainquiry's latest issue Daniel Goldin & I coedited: "How the #Sacred Emerges #Clinically: Transcendent Moments in #Psychoanalysis." Rich articles exploring the meetings of #psychotherapy & #spirituality!

"Theorizing the nones in terms of the sacralization of the intimate edge helps facilitate moving beyond defining [them] by absence–by what they are not and...allegedly lack–addressing them instead in their spiritual & psychological presence and complexity"

theorizing "nones’ spiritual lives psychoanalytically as...the sacralization of the intimate edge turns this critique on its head, & explores [how they] may be seen, not as rejecting intersubjective reality, but as sacralizing the radical experience of it" https://t.co/IsBprOjSSh

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Couldn’t be more thankful for all the folks who helped make our event tonight so enriching and insightful. Hard to believe I got to share a stage with these folks. @ardenthistorian @MoslenerSara @kathsstewart @profsamperry @GorskiPhilip @LaryciaHawkins @robertpjones @DrDeLaTorre

Looking forward to presenting at this great conference at Yale next week with some amazing folks: @RiccardiSwartz @anelsona @kathsstewart @profsamperry @AntheaButler @JeffSharlet @jasonintrator @RuthBraunstein @ardenthistorian and others. Thx to @GorskiPhilip for organizing!

CFP for a great looking symposium on race and civil religion at Elon University in February. Fully funded if accepted. And Sylvester Johnson @syljohns giving the keynote!

It’s real! Thanks again to @DavidRMorris , @ValerieWZ , and the team at @broadleaf_books who helped bring this project to life. And to all the @StraightWhiteJC guests who taught me so much. I love you all.

With so much bad news lately, happy to share some good: @Sacred_Writes just received a 450k grant from the @HLuceFdn for a 2-yr project called "Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Race, Justice, and Religion." A🧵 with all the deets:

Loved having this conversation with Brad Onishi about my new book. Atheism is messy terrain, but I’ve tried to share my best shortcuts after a long time wandering!