Tomorrow in Common: Megatrends, Christian Hope, and the Renewal of Our Shared Life

Contents Preface..................................................................................................... 3 Introduction.............................................................................................. 9 Part I — Learning to Breathe Where We Are.............................................. 13 Chapter 1 — The Future Has Already Entered the Kitchen........................... 14 Chapter 2 — How We Came to Hold These Powers..................................... 19 Chapter 3 — When Everything Changes, What Deserves Our Trust?............ 24 Chapter 4 — The Questions beneath the Questions.................................... 29 Chapter 5 — What Kind of Life Are We Trying to Renew?............................ 35 Chapter 6 — Is Change the Same as Progress?........................................... 41 Part II — Becoming Human amid Expanding Powers................................... 45 Chapter 7 — When Machines Speak, Who Is Answerable?.......................... 46 Chapter 8 — The Exhausting Freedom to Invent Yourself............................ 53 Chapter 9 — A Longer Life—and a Wider Welcome.................................... 58 Chapter 10 — When the Body Becomes a Project....................................... 64 Chapter 11 — Who Will Stay When Healing Does Not Come?...................... 70 Part III — Making Room for One Another................................................... 76 Chapter 12 — Who Owns the Possibilities of Tomorrow?............................ 77 Chapter 13 — The Invisible Landlords........................................................ 83 Chapter 14 — Enough for Whom?............................................................. 89 Chapter 15 — A City Where Someone Knows Your Name............................ 96 Chapter 16 — The Earth Is Also Our Neighbor’s Home.............................. 103 Chapter 17 — Loving a Country in a World We Must Share........................ 110 Part IV — Giving Tomorrow a Human Face............................................... 116 Chapter 18 — The Church Must Also Be Renewed.................................... 117 Chapter 19 — Small Beginnings with Public Consequences........................ 123 Chapter 20 — Hope That Can Bear an Unfinished World........................... 131 Conclusion — The Prayer We Can Inhabit................................................. 137 People in the Illustrative Scenes.............................................................. 142 Questions for Groups and Readers.......................................................... 143 A Note on Scenes and Sources................................................................ 149 Bibliography.......................................................................................... 151