Against Christian Civilization
Presented by Paul Kingsnorth
Monday, October 28 | 6:00 p.m.
Union League Club
38 East 37th Street
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer and thinker living in the west of Ireland. He is the author of nine books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including the novel The Wake, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The story of his unexpected conversion to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 2021 was published in First Things as The Cross and the Machine. His forthcoming book Against the Machine explores the cultural and spiritual impacts of the rising religion of technology.
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