Metanoia: The Foundations of Change

David Bentley Hart is an essayist, philosopher, scholar and the author of several volumes of fiction, philosophy, religious studies, and literary criticism, including All Things Are Full of Gods, Roland at Midnight, That All Shall Be Saved, and Doors of the Sea.

Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, translator, and educator. Her books include A Sand Book, winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize & Longlisted for the National Book Award, and, most recently, The Rose.

L.M. Sacasas is associate director of the Christian Study Center of Gainesville, Florida, and author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and society.

August Lamm is a writer, visual artist, and anti-tech activist. Her pamphlet “You Don’t Need a Smartphone” was featured on NBC and NPR, and her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Free Press. Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2026.

Michael Clune is the author of the novel Pan, the memoirs Gamelife and White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin, and three academic books, most recently A Defense of Judgment (University of Chicago, 2023). His essays have appeared in Harper’s, Critical Inquiry, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Best American Essays, PMLA and elsewhere.

Fr. Mark Roosien is a lecturer in liturgical studies at the ISM and Yale Divinity School, focusing on Christianity in late antiquity. In 2024, Cambridge University Press published his first book, Ritual and Earthquakes in Constantinople: Liturgy, Ecology and Empire. He has also translated two books by the 20th century Orthodox theologian Sergius Bulgakov.

Hollis Robbins (born 1963) is an American academic and essayist. Robbins is professor of English and also serves as Special Advisor for Humanities at the University of Utah; she was formerly dean of humanities. Her scholarship focuses on African-American literature, higher education and artificial intelligence.

Jennifer Paxton is a Clinical Associate Professor of History at The Catholic University of America. She is also the director of the University Honors Program. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University, where she also taught and earned a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.

Andrew McLuhan is a poet, educator, researcher, and founder of The McLuhan Institute, which exists to preserve and continue the tradition of exploration into the nature and effects of human technologies, as begin by his grandfather Marshall McLuhan in the mid-20th century, and continued by his father Eric McLuhan.

Jordan Castro is a novelist, essayist, and the Deputy Director of the Cluny Institute. He is on the board of the DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts.

Luke Burgis is a seasoned entrepreneur, educator, and author with a multidisciplinary background. He serves on the faculty of The Catholic University of America, where he helps lead the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship, and is the author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life.

Ben Hunt is the chief investment officer and co-founder of Second Foundation Partners, an independent financial research firm and registered investment adviser, and the author of Epsilon Theory. Epsilon Theory is a newsletter and website that examines markets through the lenses of game theory and history. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University, was a tenured political science professor, and has co-founded three technology companies.