Current Events
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Letter to the American Church
Eric Metaxas’s Letter to the American Church is the first book I’ve read by this author, but his biography of Bonhoeffer is familiar to me, along with his reputation as a thorough researcher…
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The Right Question
“I feel especially in the West, there is a lot more of like, ‘Oh, my God, what will happen because of this A.I.?’” Mr. Nadella said. “And it’s better to sort of really…
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Be not conformed
Yesterday, I revisited my favorite discussion of Lewis’s space trilogy, David Downing’s Planets in Peril. A book-length critical study, it draws together numerous perspectives on the novels, includes a lengthy bibliography, and gives…
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ChatGPT: Friend or Foe?
ChatGPT has made waves over the last few weeks because it’s the most high-performing AI-powered chatbot yet created. Able to produce natural, human-sounding prose, it’s raised alarms in the academic world because students…
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Incrementalism
As regards the powers manifested in the aeroplane or the wireless, Man is as much the patient or subject as the possessor, since he is the target both for bombs and propoganda… What…
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The Collective
It is not a question of causing the human being to disappear, but of making him capitulate, of inducing him to accommodate himself to techniques and not to experience personal feelings and reactions.…
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Lewis the Social Prophet
There is a crowd of busybodies. . . whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists. They call it “taking the young people out of themselves,” or “waking them up,”…
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“The Real Thing At Last”
“I think,” said Mark, “that James touched on the most important point when he said it would have its own legal staff and its own police. . . The real thing is that…
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Elder Care
Yesterday, I visited my mother at the nursing home. The facility is just over an hour away, and prior to Covid I visited every 2-3 weeks, usually with my daughters. We would enter…
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Read-alouds and the moral imagination
I’m reading Live Not By Lies, by Rod Dreher. It’s a discussion of the “soft totalitarianism” spreading in America, and how people in general, and Christians in particular, can be alert to it…