Exploring the Nexus of Religion, Science, and Technology
A quick announcement--my book Designer Science has been published today. It's been a long and winding road (as the Beatles famously said). What started 8 years ago as a potential dissertation project morphed into the dissertation itself. And now it has been expanded and revised into a
Thoughts occasioned by AI's destruction of the college classroom. What is education for? And can religion offer any help?
My book on intelligent design is up on NYU's website. And an article I wrote for Paul Pastor's substack The Rose Fire has been published.
Stanley Hauerwas challenges American Christians in his latest book Jesus Changes Everything
A few of my favorite reads from this year (excluding re-reads)
Though the genre is sometimes thought dated, cyberpunk books, movies, and video games are still relevant. They form a last-ditch effort at humanism in the face of machine dominance.
My book on intelligent design has been completed and will be published in 2025 by NYU Press.
My review of David Bentley Hart's new book All Things Are Full of Gods (Yale 2024). On mind, God, evolution, and machines.
Part two of a theological investigation of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, focusing on sacrifice, time, and storytelling.
Part one of a theological investigation of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun
An analysis of the religious symbolism in both Elden Ring and Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun.
The internet's pioneers envisioned it as a digital commons. Lately, this commons has become less an idealist agora and more a polluted park.
It's easy to focus on the bad results of new technology and machines--especially today as AI runs roughshod over us. But we must also remember its good.
Perhaps Lewis's most lasting contribution to literary criticism, he uses A Preface to Paradise Lost to push back against some confused trends.
Reflections on the machine metaphor inspired by Joy Marie Clarkson's book You Are a Tree.