ByColin Miller
Why is anxiety and depression at an all-time high? In part, Colin Miller writes, because the totalized digital economy in which we participate prevents us from fully realizing our God-given potential.
ByColin Miller
New technologies are making it possible for radical monopolies to commodify not only our labor, but our entire lives, writes Colin Miller.
ByColin Miller
One of the main features of our consumerist society, writes Colin Miller, is that the production of basic necessities ceases to be internal to local communities and is taken over by large impersonal institutions in what Miller calls “radical monopolies.”
ByColin Miller
When Fredrick Taylor pioneered the science of workflow management, he could never have imagined how fully his ideas would take over the workplace. Today, work is quantified, analyzed, evaluated and then manipulated to maximize profitability. In the process, Colin Miller says, we’ve lost touch with the personally satisfying nature of creative work.
ByColin Miller
What would the Catholic Church look like if Catholics lived the “radical roots” of their faith? Maybe something like the Catholic Worker Movement, Colin Miller writes in his new book, We Are Only Saved Together: Living the Revolutionary Vision of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement. This is the second installment excerpting the introduction to his book.
ByColin Miller
We have all heard that following the Gospel is supposed to fill us with joy, Colin Miller writes in his new book, We Are Only Saved Together: Living the Revolutionary Vision of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement. But far too many people experience the Church as little more than superficial “friend dating” and low-commitment workshops and service opportunities. In the Catholic Worker’s vision of personalism, community, good work, and the pursuit of justice and mercy at a real personal cost, these people might just find the “something more” they have been looking for.
ByColin Miller
Work used to be personal, local, and communal…but all of that changed with the Industrial Revolution. Colin Miller begins a new series looking at Church teaching and the Catholic Worker’s critique of society in light of those changes.
ByColin Miller
In his continuing series of articles for The Catholic Citizen, Colin Miller reflects on the Church’s social teaching that property is only legitimately “mine” when it is used for the common good. Lawsuits, insurance, risk, property codes, a money economy, liability, consumer culture, single-use-disposable containers—all of this and much more help make a world where every item belongs “absolutely” to someone, rather than “loosely” as a trust for the purpose of building community.
ByColin Miller
True solutions to social problems have to come from within, not outside institutions. This is personalism, and it is deep in the heart of the Catholic social tradition, says Colin Miller in the third of his series on the ideas underpinning the Catholic Worker Movement.
ByColin Miller
What did Peter Maurin mean when he talked about “personalism”? In his continuing series on the ideas underpinning the Catholic Worker Movement, Colin Miller writes about the meaning of personalism.
ByColin Miller
The Catholic Worker was never meant to be an alternative to the Church, but to create new cells of vibrant Catholic community living a Gospel-centered way of life.
