1+ week, 3+ day ago   (172+ words) But even if I could afford a super-elongated life span, and even if I wasn’t demented, I’m not sure I would want it. I am surely not alone. Many Australians today will have their own reservations about the prospect of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (355+ words) Benjamin Wayman and Kent Dunnington Sports are ubiquitous in modern culture, but it is not easy to know how Christians should respond to them. Should we embrace sports presumptively — playing them, watching them, spending money on them — or should we…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (256+ words) I’d like to present here two arguments related to the value of theory through the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943). Like Weil, I think that theory should always be directed toward concrete realities, and that theory therefore needs the arts. Consider…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (484+ words) While artificial intelligence is the immediate focus of Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (“The Grandeur of Humanity”), his deeper concern is not technological innovation itself but the changing conditions through which human beings understand themselves and experience reality. At…...