This past school year, I’ve run into Artificial Intelligence (AI) talk and text at every turn (including last night’s viewing of the new Mission Impossible, with its phantasmagorical, cyber “Entity” hell bent on devouring civilization). I’m just back from a year of fill-in, philosophy teaching at New Saint Andrews College way up in Panhandle, Idaho. […]

In a sermon years ago, Matt Chandler now famously said (or obnoxiously yelled), “You’re not David!” “The Bible is not about you!” Since then, these phrases, or at least their sentiment, have been repeated ad nauseam in Christianity, especially by those ostensibly conservative or reformed. While we cannot discern the heart motives of such speech, […]

“There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a […]

Tragedy Struck Early Saturday As of this writing, the manhunt just ended in the greater Minneapolis area (not far from where I live across the border in Wisconsin) for suspected gunman Vance Boelter. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Boelter first visited the home of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman where he shot and […]