Just as the legend of Dracula depicts how medieval peasants saw blood-sucking aristocrats (until defeated by the church), says Dan Brooks, the story of Jeffrey Epstein is "a fable of how power works in the 21st-century United States."
Just as the legend of Dracula depicts how medieval peasants saw blood-sucking aristocrats (until defeated by the church), says Dan Brooks, the story of Jeffrey Epstein is "a fable of how power works in the 21st-century United States."
It has been proposed, as party officials try to find a way forward, that Democrats need their own Trump. What would that look like?
The main problems with AI-generated sermons are not ethical but theological. AI-chatbots are not called by God to preach. They cannot pray. Or meditate. Or struggle like their hearers. They have no vocation.
Today 12% of Protestant clergy say they are comfortable using AI to write their sermons. Is that ethical? A consideration of the arguments in favor (and why they are wrong).
Oswald Bayer has written about secular theodicy, pointing out that concluding that God must not exist does not solve the problem of theodicy but, rather, makes it worse. Here three philosophers, two non-believers and one Christian, discuss grief.
Minneapolis is also going for a socialist mayor. Europe is making itself go extinct. And seal of confession update.
Why the working class is so often conservative, while elites are so often radical has been a puzzle to both sides. One answer is the Marxist notion of "false consciousness." But such analyses are reductionistic and condescending.
The controversy over President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is being called "the biggest crisis of his presidency." Is it? What are your thoughts about this?
A number of tech start ups are devoted to the genetic screening and implantation of embryos, using IVF not for fertility problems but for eugenics. To improve the gene pool, some are calling for replacing sex as a means of reproduction with this new technology.
Americans are becoming so isolated from each other that I worry that the ties that bind the fabric of society might be coming apart! Why this is and what churches can do about it.
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