A Jewish scholar writes about the nature of blasphemy, the Hebrew word for which is "piercing." The Levitical law punished blasphemy and cursing so harshly because it amounted to deicide, an attempt to kill God. We can apply this to the piercing of Jesus on the Cross, a true deicide, which was transfigured into atonement and redemption.
AI Developer Says We “do not understand how our own AI creations work.” If You Want Guidance with Medical Ethics, Don’t Ask a Bioethicist. And Europe’s Teen Terrorists.
Pope Francis focused on controversies and proposed reforms within the church. Whereas Pope Leo seems to want to address issues outside the church, offering moral leadership for the challenges being faced by society as a whole. Can this apply for Protestants?
The “Bush Doctrine” from President George W. Bush made as a priority for United States foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, to spread freedom and democracy. The “Trump Doctrine,” as articulated by the president in his recent visit to Qatar and Saudi Arabia is to promote peace and prosperity. Which do you think makes for the best foreign policy?
A UK political scientist argues that progressivism is over. This is not just a matter of Donald Trump getting elected, again. That is a symptom of a deeper and more pervasive shift.
My review of a book on religion in the workplace, which includes a large-scale empirical study of vocation.
I grew up in Oklahoma, the tornado capital of the world, so I had seen tornadoes and what they can do. But I had never been IN a tornado until last Friday in St. Louis.
War as video game. North Korea's remote worker scam. And the more powerful AI gets, the more it hallucinates. UPDATE: We survived the St. Louis tornado, but it hit us. We just had minor damage with nobody hurt. More on this later, but blogging is a challenge with (still) no electricity.
Some scientists claim to have found evidence for the two wildest theories being proposed to explain the anomalies of nature: (1) that the universe is a computer simulation; and (2) that there are an infinite number of parallel universes.
"The hat reads, 'Make America Great Again," observes Jay Nordlinger. "Leaving aside the question of 'again' — what makes America great? I think this question is too little discussed." So let's discuss it!
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