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November 2023

November 20, 2023

The Overemphasis on Love and Tolerance

Love is very important for Christians, but has there been too much emphasis placed on...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

The Worst Book I’ve Ever Read

John Seel Jr.'s book, The New Copernicans, is the worst book I have ever read....

October 25, 2023

Worthy of Our Sufferings

Dostoevsky wrote, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of...

October 17, 2023

Tragedies, Truths, and Technologies

Historically we didn't worry about wars in far away places because we weren't aware of...

October 10, 2023

Would You Wager on Pascal’s Mugging?

Imagine that someone walks up to you and demands all your money. If you fail...

October 03, 2023

Betting on the Future

There are three obvious paths forward: religion, atheism and transhumanism. But each of these paths...

September 2023

September 26, 2023

The Greatest Three Nephites Story Ever Told

It is believed that, during his mortal ministry, Jesus granted immortality to three of His...

September 19, 2023

Faith, UFOs, the Supernatural, and Transistor Radios

Why are many people so willing to believe evidence of UFOs and Aliens, and so...

September 11, 2023

The Thickness of the World

In the book Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis there is a scene where...

August 2023

August 29, 2023

Does Technology Encourage Virtue?

Last week we looked at how technology appears to multiple our temptations, but what does...

August 22, 2023

The Temptations of Technology

What effect does technology have on the temptations we experience? If we examine the seven...

August 14, 2023

The Future Is Here and It’s Weird

When I was a boy I couldn’t imagine anything beyond the year 2000. Now that...

August 07, 2023

And There Was Silence in Heaven…

In the Book of Revelation we read that when the seventh seal was opened there...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

Technological Salvation

Two groups have a narrative of human potential — a sense of humanity’s ultimate destiny:...

July 24, 2023

Chesterton’s Fence and Technology

G. K. Chesterton noted that one shouldn't remove a fence until you understand why it...

July 17, 2023

Separating the Beneficial From the Barbarous

Clearly there are some traditions which should be abandoned. And just as clearly there are...

July 07, 2023

The Technology of Religion vs. The Technology of Progress

Religion is a very old technology, and the wisdom contains is often hard to identify....

June 2023

June 30, 2023

Religion is Technology

Religion is often viewed as being completely different from technology, but in actuality religion is...

June 23, 2023

A Judgment Day for AIs

If AIs are going to act as independent agents then they should be praised for...

June 16, 2023

Morality for Robots and AIs

AI risk has been in the news a lot lately. One way to reduce that...

June 09, 2023

The Divine Attributes of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence has many attributes, which previously have been qualities we've only associated with the...

June 02, 2023

What Has Technology to Do With Religion?

Religion and technology relate to each other in strange and subtle ways. Religion must, of...

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