A key member of the Inklings profoundly shaped both Lewis's faith and Tolkien's fantasies: the philosopher, poet, critic, and lawyer Owen Barfield, "one of the most neglected important thinkers of the 20th Century." A summary of his thought, with the help of K. R. Queen's video.
[Free post] Excerpts from Christopher Beha's "Why I Am Not an Atheist" on the limits of skepticism and the necessity of faith. And how his memoir accords with the apologetics of J. G. Hamann. Read more
Supremes overturn gerrymandering on the basis of race. "The most pro-drug administration in our history"? And mixed messages from the AI tycoons.
The Vatican's International Theological Commission has identified two specific heresies associated with many of the assumptions and goals of the high-tech industry. These are transhumanism and posthumanism.
[free post] Saddlemaker and leather artist Cary Schwarz--a longtime member of the Cranach blog community--has been given "the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts" by the National Endowment for the Arts. Read more
As AI-generated content proliferates, from homework assignments to professional publications, another technology has emerged: AI detectors. These are helpful, but they must be used with caution.
Much of our civilization--our ways of thinking, our art, our literature, our political order--has been built on that of the ancient Greeks. But, as Philip Jenkins points out, most of Greek writing has been lost. Why and why did some texts survive? What are the prospects for our civilization?
Another assassination attempt against the president. Preventing fellow-citizens from being represented. And UK outlaws tobacco forever for anyone born after 2008.
Some people are claiming that AI will free us from the drudgery that constitutes much of our work today, enabling us to spend our time with the more fulfilling parts of work. Anne Hendershott argues that the "drudgery" is where the true dignity of work can be found.
Paul Thompson points out that "Jesus’s 'church' combined a Zealot committed to the overthrow of Roman rule of Palestine, and a tax collector who colluded with the Roman rulers for his own benefit." The right kind and the wrong kind of diversity in the church.
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