Don’t Follow the Science By Will Brown Reflecting on the surreal experience of the pandemic from the vantage of a little temporal distance, as one does, what sticks in my craw most of all is perhaps the rhetoric about science. “Follo... Read More...
Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI By Matthew S.C. Olver I’ll admit, I was a bit late to the AI party, or at least to the awareness that AI might be throwing a party to which I’m not invited. A recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show was incred... Read More...
On Shared Humanity and Diverse Religion: Notes from Egypt By Jeff Boldt My wife and I recently moved our four kids to Egypt, where I now work for the bishop in the Alexandria School of Theology. I’m not a complete stranger to North Africa and the Middle East. I’ve been here before, and my wife is Iraqi in backgrou... Read More...
Building for Humans: A Primer on Christian Architecture By Stewart Clem How do we know that God cares about architecture? Perhaps the clearest answer is found in the book of Exodus. In fact, most of the second half of the book consists of the Lord’s instructions ... Read More...
The Ascension: Waiting to Inhale By Daniel Martins We all begin our lives as fetuses. We all had the experience of developing in utero and receiving necessary oxygen from our mother’s blood supply by means of an umbilical cord, and we’ve al... Read More...
Spiritual but not religious Philip Pullman has written an ambitious but plodding YA story for adults.
Designing women: The real topic of ‘Love and sex with robots’ Until quite recently, I never imagined I would end up at an event that was splashed all over the British tabloid press and only moved to London after it had been banned from Malaysia.
Being human with St. Francis Lesser Feasts and Fasts: "Of all the saints, Francis is the most popular and admired, but probably the least imitated; few have attained to his total identification with the poverty and suffering of Christ."
