Slow Digest: The Strother School of Radical Attention

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack with contributions from C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell. You spend too much time on your phone. We all do, so don’t take it personally. This is by design. …

Slow Digest: Introducing Kyle Whyte

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. In the titanic world history, The Dawn of Everything, archaeologist David Wengrow and the late anthropologist David Graeber trace the development of human culture and critique the idea …

Slow Digest: Discernment, Deliberation, Collaboration

In this episode of C21’s “6.5 Minutes with…,” graduate fellow Jamee Pritchard interviews Robert Smith, Director of the Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach (CURTO) at Marquette University. He discusses his journey in community-based research and engagement by emphasizing …

Slow Digest: Artificial Intelligence & Humanity

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Meghan O’Gieblyn, in her book God, Human, Animal, Machine, explores the intersections of religion, technology, and consciousness. She writes from both a philosophical and personal lens about …

Slow Digest: Just Get Out There

In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, graduate fellow Jamee Pritchard interviews Samira Payne, an educator and outdoor enthusiast, who discusses her journey into hiking and her role as a volunteer leader for Outdoor Afro, a nonprofit organization that …

Slow Digest: A World of Gifts, Not Commodities

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by Katie Waddell, C21 Managing Director, and researched by C21 Graduate Fellow Carson Pittman. The valleyedge by edgebare field by fieldI walked through it through you rain by raincold by coldroot absenceand the purposeful …

Slow Digest: Urbanism

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. To at least some degree, living in an urban environment necessitates embracing speed. City dwellers have things to do and places to go. When it takes a long …

Slow Digest: Pausing, Healing, Asking for Help

In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, C21 Graduate Fellow, Jamee Pritchard, interviews Charmaine Lang, Ph.D, a certified healing centered coach and organizational development consultant, about her work on slow care. Lang defines slow care as intentional pausing and community …

Slow Digest: Television

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles I came across slow TV during the fall semester of 2023 while in the midst of studying for my preliminary exams. While the …

Slow Digest: Care, Rest, Resistance

In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, Desiree McCray, a womanist scholar, explores the intersections of race, gender, class, and Black religion and culture. She advocates for “slow knowing” and “slow care” in education, public theology, and activism, emphasizing …