At the recent Apple media event to introduce the Apple Watch, CEO Tim Cook implied that the Watch would bring about a new and better you. In this brief podcast, I’ll be the wet blanket that spoils technology’s unending self-improvement project. Watch this 11 minute condensed version of the event: On the Reality Distortion Field: Reality distortion […]

In a different sort of dystopia, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven has struggles in a world that is perhaps not all that different than our own. And maybe what her post-apocalyptic world lacks is already remedied by Jesus? From Knopf’s jacket copy: “An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie […]

From Dante Alighieri’s Inferno: “THROUGH ME THE WAY INTO THE SUFFERING CITY, THROUGH ME THE WAY TO THE ETERNAL PLAIN, THROUGH ME THE WAY THAT RUNS AMONG THE LOST,. JUSTICE URGED ON MY HIGH ARTIFICER; MY MAKER WAS DIVINE AUTHORITY, THE HIGHEST WISDOM, AND THE PRIMAL LOVE. BEFORE ME NOTHING BUT ETERNAL THINGS WERE MADE, […]

The horse paused beside the obelisk. In the east the sky was lightening gently, a pearlish, pre-dawn luminescence that made the people of the graveyard uncomfortable and made them think about returning to their comfortable homes. Even so, not a one of them moved. They were watching the Lady on the Grey, each of them […]

‘Ay, roar well,’ said Bagheera, under his whiskers; ‘for the time comes when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of Man.’ ‘It was well done,’ said Akela. ‘Men and their cubs are very wise. He may be a help in time.’ ‘Truly, a help in time of […]

Physicists have sought far and wide for an explanation of the universe which excludes the postulate of a divine being, an intelligent designer who created and will complete all things. One solution is the multiverse, that the universe is really only one of many options out there, that there are other universes have spun off […]