What is the last true rebellion? The creators of the Orthodox Christian magazine “Death to the World” offered an interesting answer. The last true rebellion, they argued, is “to be dead to this world and alive to the other world.” For many disaffected young people, this message possessed an unusual power. Surrounded by consumerism, political […]
Why are modern people so desensitized to violence? Some insist that atrocities such as the Holocaust could never occur again in the age of the internet and social media, because instant communication would expose evil before it could fully manifest itself. Yet the international reaction to the suffering and destruction in Gaza has revealed the […]
What’s going on in the world of magnetics? Physicist Dr Weiping Yu and Robert Schaudt join David Gornoski to talk about how TWST Events is promoting scientific innovations through conventions throughout America, Dr Yu’s appearance in the recent Motor, Drive Systems, & Magnetics conference, what the Magnetics Conference will look like in the future, and […]
Among the great American novelists of the twentieth century, few have proven more prophetic than Philip K Dick. His novels are often shelved under science fiction, yet that label obscures the deeper nature of his work. Dick was not merely interested in futuristic gadgets or speculative worlds. He was concerned with metaphysics, memory, identity, death, […]
Adnane Mokrani’s “Towards an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence” is perhaps the only engagement with René Girard’s anthropology written from within an Islamic framework. In the aftermath of 9/11, Girard often suggested that militant Islam represented a possible return of sacrificial religion into history. Mokrani’s work can be read, at least in part, as a response […]
Why is there an increasing trend among the youth toward Christianity? I cannot claim a definitive answer, not least because I am no longer young. At best, I can draw from my own experience and cautiously speculate. My own journey began with a simple but overwhelming realization: that God loves human beings far more deeply […]
I recently had the pleasure of watching “Project Hail Mary” on the big screen with a close friend; it was one of the best experiences I’ve had in a movie theatre in a long time. The film is refreshingly optimistic, as my friend put it, and offers something much needed in our current climate of […]
Those who seek to hasten the return of Christ (or the first advent of a messiah) through war would do well to reflect on “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” the haunting work of Walter M. Miller Jr.. Far from presenting catastrophe as a prelude to divine renewal, Miller’s novel offers a sobering vision of history caught […]
In a recent speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that Jesus holds no advantage over Genghis Khan, reasoning that power alone is capable of defeating what he perceives as “evil.” Netanyahu’s statement reflects a profound ignorance not only of history, but of morality itself. Palestinian Christian minister Isaac Munther rightly identified this in his […]
Is Liberalism “Evil” as Many Christians in America Claim? In many Christian conservative circles today there is a powerful narrative that liberalism is inherently evil. It is described as a force that tears down tradition, undermines morality, and attacks religion itself. Yet this narrative does not withstand careful reflection on how liberal ideas have actually […]