From my article, “The Power of Complaining,” The notion that people need to vent in order to feel better was influenced by the age of steam power in the 19th and early…
Last week our disclosure culture reached a new level of intensity. Shakira broke YouTube records with a Spanish-language song about how Gerard Piqué cheated on her. In just 24 hours, 63 million…
My forthcoming book, Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation: A Manual for Recovering Gnostics, continues to receive endorsements from scholars who have been shown advanced copies of the manuscript. Below are some of…
This evening I went onto OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3 – the new public AI that is taking the world by storm because of its ability to imitate human thought, language, and creativity. I had…
Scott Aaronson, an engineer at OpenAI, reported that Ilya Sutskever, Chief Scientist of OpenAI, would like to reduce ethics, and even the definition of goodness, to an algorithm. I have these weekly calls with Ilya Sutskever,…
I’m sorry to keep posting about politics, but things are becoming so interesting. There is no question that we are living in a transitional period politically, without a clear sense of how things…
One of my favorite artworks was made by the French artist, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). His sculpture called “The Arc of the Covenant” or “The Cathedral,” shows two intertwined right hands gently touching…
The recent explosion in AI technology may force scholars working in the Humanities to retreat from their increasingly insular preoccupation with things like exploding metanarratives, deconstructing authors’ race and sexuality, and their…
A friend recently wrote to me with some questions about conspiracy theories, in addition to offering push-back to a statement I made to the effect that I was uncomfortable with conspiracy theories.…
I used to be a libertarian. I published for the Spokane Libertarian Examiner, and wrote articles warning against totalitarianism (see here), decrying foreign interventionism (see here and here and here), defending gun rights (see…
Update: this book is now available from Ancient Faith and Amazon. Is this world important to God, or are His purposes entirely focused on a heavenly here-after? Do our physical experiences on…
At this year’s Touchstone conference, I had the privilege of talking and learning from one of our guest speakers, Michael Hanby. Dr. Hanby is the Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science…
