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Sloth and the Machine: A Reflection on Paul Kingsnorth's New Book, "Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity"

The sin that Paul Kingsnorth dismisses as irrelevant, I suggest is at the heart of the Machine.

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Oct 20, 2025
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I’m reading Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity, which looks at our techno-capitalist culture and how it is de-forming us. It is a fascinating read on its own, but I am also currently teaching a class on spiritual formation, and I am seeing some interesting connections between the two.

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