Mark your calendars, because I will be presenting at the 2023 Digital Catacombs conference in Denver Colorado, June 7 – 9. Other speakers include Rev. Dr. Adam Koontz, Rev. Dr. Michael Brown, Rev.…
In The Wizard of Oz, the wizard is thought to be a powerful and mysterious ruler with magical abilities. However, it turns out he is merely using mechanical devices and tricks to…
I was struck by the following words from Archimandrite Maximos’ Introduction to The Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life According to St. Maximos the Confessor, translated and edited by Archimandrite Maximos Constas: To love God…
How can we cultivate the virtue of gratitude when it is lacking? Can a person train themselves to actually feel grateful? Is gratitude even a feeling, or is it an act of the will.…
From my recent book Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation: A Manual for Recovering Gnostics Clearly, as believers we cannot embrace the givenness of things if we do not perceive the world in…
In my column at Salvo Magazine I’ve been writing a series on artificial intelligence and robotics (full links given under “Further Reading” below). My most recent contributions, “AI Mission Creep” and “GPT-3…
Yesterday we heard Vladimir Putin address the Russian parliament, and once again he justified the war in the Ukraine as an attempt “to protect the people in our historical lands.” This has…
How many more people have to die before we wake up to the dangers of robotics? That is a question that Nicholas Carr explored in his 2015 book about automation, The Glass…
I often have occasion to return to the wisdom of Metropolitan Jonah, particularly his talk “Do Not Resent, Do not React, Keep Inner Stillness.” Here is what the retired Metropolitan has to…
In my book Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation (now available), I discuss the practical difference that resurrection makes to how we think about the body and ourselves as physical beings. From chapter…
From Byung-Chul Han’s Saving Beauty: Natural beauty is opposed to digital beauty. In digital beauty the negativity of the other is entirely removed. It is therefore perfectly smooth. It is not meant to…
