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Are We Trying to Reverse the Fall?
Artificial Intelligence, the Search for Longevity, and God’s Promise to Make All Things New I was listening to the Moonshots podcast recently, hearing about the extraordinary advances taking place in artificial intelligence. The conversation turned to medicine and the possibility that AI will help us solve some of humanity’s greatest biological challenges. We’re already seeing…
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Why Michael S. Heiser Will Change the Way You Read Your Bible
We often approach the Bible like a tame garden, well-manicured, predictable, and safely fenced off from the "weirdness" of the ancient world. We’ve been conditioned by centuries of modern rationalism to treat the Scriptures as a collection of moral aphorisms or a systematic checklist for legal standing. But what if we’ve been reading it in…
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Why I Started a Personal Blog: Sharing a Supernatural Worldview in a Secular Age
We live in a world that has been systematically drained of its mystery. In our modern, secular age, we are often encouraged to view the cosmos as a cold, mechanical clock: a closed system governed by physics and biological imperatives. This is what we might call a “tame” worldview. It is comfortable, predictable, and ultimately…
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Why the Bible Needs to Get Weird Again
5 Surprising Lessons from the Book of Enoch For many modern readers, the Bible has been “tamed.” We have smoothed over its rough edges and sanitized its supernatural elements to fit within a comfortable, scientific paradigm. In doing so, we risk turning the text into a mere mirror, where we see only reflections of our…
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Christianity Today: Can Anger at God be Righteous?
The Psalms show us how to faithfully protest to God. J. Todd Billings| December 28, 2018 After I was diagnosed with cancer five years ago, I returned to the Book of Psalms anew. I started to pray with psalms that I had merely read before or had skipped altogether. While I was receiving intense chemo,…
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Thoughts on Pain (from Jack Deere)
The fact that someone else’s catastrophe is greater than mine has never made my pain feel better. I have never overcome my pain by comparing it to someone else’s pain. I have never overcome my pain by reasoning myself out of it, nor has it helped to seek comfort in some version of theology that…
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