Corey Stephan, Ph.D.

I am pleased to announce that I will be delivering a 2025-2026 series of lectures at my current home parish, St.

The desktop background in my photograph above is from the official wallpaper repository of the Dracula theme project.

I have decided to take a break from my usual serious, long-form blog posts in favor of a playful, short one.

Previously, I have written about my intentional minimalism in design for this website, including my agreement with the hyper-minimalist ideas (not the foul language) to be found in the Suckless Project’s webpage “The Web Sucks.”

The wallpaper shown in the photograph above is from github.com/linuxdotexe/nordic-wallpapers Table of Contents Tutorial or Personal Notes for Public Consumption?

Introduction In my recent deep review of the QuirkLogic Papyr E-Ink tablet, I purposefully focused on the device’s stock settings.

Notate bene: I purposefully posted this review of the device with its stock software configuration, that is, as the QuirkLogic team intended for it to be used.

On October 21, 2022, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Derek Taylor of DistroTube about my advocacy and use of free and open source software as a professional Catholic theologian.

The FreeBSD Foundation is a “non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide.”

A lovely gift that I received for Christmas (2020) was one of CanaKit’s Raspberry Pi 4 kits that comes with an aluminum case that functions as a heatsink, allowing the Pi’s ARM processor to be passively cooled even during high load.

Pope Francis’s July 16 motu proprio Traditionis custodes (“Guardians of the Tradition”) overturned most of his predecessor Benedict XVI’s 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum (“Of the Supreme Pontiffs”).

The Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) is one of the world’s largest annual gatherings for free software advocates (like myself) and developers to share and discuss our work.

One month ago, I launched the GitHub repository awesome-theology.

The Learning Management System (LMS) Brightspace Desire2Learn (D2L) was one of a number of popular software tools that I condemned in my free software manifesto for Catholic institutions.

Historical theologians and GNU/Linux geeks both crave order where order is hard to find.

As weeks of social distancing have dragged into months, good cheer has become scarce.

Until recently, my favorite GNU/Linux distribution was Manjaro, which is based on Arch Linux.

Immediately before what could have been the greatest battle of the Star Wars franchise (if not for poor dialogue and the bizarre setting of Mustafar)—the long-awaited first duel between Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his former apprentice who had just turned to

Although I cannot endorse the hostile tone of the folks who participate in the Suckless project (“Software that Sucks Less” inasmuch as it is both free and open source and as minimal as possible while functioning as intended), I am grateful for their work.

A few days ago, Zoë Kooyman, Program Manager for the Free Software Foundation, posted an article titled “Remote education does not require giving up rights to freedom and privacy.”

Since the goal of making Scripture available in an array of formats is widespread, it is unsurprising that Christian free and open source software developers have blessed us with various command line interface (CLI) Bibles for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like