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The Arts Art is how we express philosophical and theological insights beyond merely denotative language. We All Live in a Yellow Submarine “The occasional dragon notwithstanding, we hardly ever see monsters in Liverpool anymore.” Read More The Owl and the Pussycat “The entire story makes no sense…unless there’s something special about that ring, something you can’t get at Harrod’s at any price.” Read More Dante and the Yellow Submarine “Yellow Submarine did for the Divine Comedy what West Side Story did for Romeo & Juliet…but I very much doubt the Beatles had any idea what they’d done!” Read More Marcel Proust “Who has not dreamed of reliving a cherished moment, not through the ghostly shadows of mind but, like Job, in the flesh?” Read More Robert Frost “Anyone can go for a walk in the woods; only Frost can ‘walk this way’.” Ask any English teacher. The Road Not Taken is a perennial favorite, especially among young readers, who often understand it as an anthem of non-conformity and adventure - Jack Kerouac in verse. But is this really what the poem is about?" Read More Do You Noh? “In the eternal present, not only is every historical event preserved in real time, but every possible event is preserved as well.“ Read More I am the Walrus “Popular music after World War II is a treasure trove for the philosophically curious… Paraphrasing Ecclesiastes, there’s a time to wind and a time to unravel, and now is the time to unravel.” Read More Messiah Redux “Were Handel and Jennens dog whistle revolutionaries?... It is one thing to criticize the secular State, yet another to call for dashing it to pieces.” Read More Handel’s Messiah "There is only one full proof indication that Christmas is coming: the endless performances of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Yup, it’s that time of year! Read More Moore's Nativity “No need to study theology at university… (or) go to Sunday school. It’s all right there in front of us…and Henry Moore helps us see it: Christianity!” Read More Kandinsky: The Painter of Other Worlds The role of the artist is to challenge “common sense,” to point out the unrecognized assumptions that underpin naïve realism and to suggest certain directions we might travel in pursuit of deeper truth. Read More Alice In Looking-glass world, there’s plenty of there and then, but not a whiff of here and now. Read More Mary Poppins, Sufi Master The story of Mary Poppins is the story of one small boy’s initiation into the teachings of Sufi spirituality and the secrets of Sufi mysticism. When the initiation of Michael Banks is complete, Michael has come, at least in some measure, to know the mind of God. Not bad for seven-years-old! Read More The Meaning of Music We pray the Psalms hoping to conform our minds, our values, our wills to God’s. Remember, God is his essence; we, on the other hand, are each free to create our own essences. Unfortunately, most of us are making a hash of it! Music elucidates the pre-verbal, non-phenomenal structures of the real world. Its meaning is not subject to logical analysis, scientific verification, or mathematical proof. The only test of music’s validity is its beauty. Read More

Science and Technology Science delivers the raw material that becomes Philosophy and Theology; then it tests their propositions against data from ‘the real world’. My PCP Should Be a BOT “Dr. Bot would handle patient in-take, conduct the initial interview…order appropriate tests, and offer a preliminary diagnosis…” Read More How to Build a Warp Drive “Buckle up! While your friends are lining up for a trip to Mars, you’re headed for Alpha Centauri…and beyond!” Read More Psilocybin “If I decide to take a ‘trip’ someday, would you care to join me?” Read More A Brief History of Motion “Zeno exploited the continuity of Real Numbers to show…that motion is incompatible with Arithmetic.” Read More Out of the Mouths of Bots “Our Bot has understood IRT something that took our species millennia to grasp: Life is absurd…” Read More Pando and Me “Pando is Pando because Pando isn’t ‘Pando’ anymore!” Read More Genesis and Quantum Computing “Quantum Mechanics is the secret code that unlocks Genesis and when it does, we are surprised to discover that Genesis may be ‘literally true’ after all.” Read More Life Imitates AI “We trained our bots to imitate us and now, voilà! We are imitating our bots.” Read More The Problem of Waste “(Theology) will have to account, not just for the evil in the world, but for something much worse in modern eyes…the inefficiency of the world.” Read More What Is Time? An astronomer explains the search to find its origins... Read More Read My Mind! “What you’ve most feared since early childhood is on the cusp of becoming a reality: people reading your thoughts.” Read More Of Mice and Mirrors “On a deeper level than you know, your neighbor is yourself…and you are your neighbor.” Read More Bacteria Are People Too “I’ll bet a bacterium could hold its own in any Parisian café. They don’t need to study existentialism at the Sorbonne; they live it every day.” Read More Follow the Science “Every event is novel, and no event causes any other event. Every event is free, causa sui, and sui generis. But the universe is also conservative…” Read More Causality & the B-Gita “Because every event is sui generis, no event causes any other event! That said, every event contributes to the Actual World of every subsequent event.” Read More Time for a New Turing Test “…This modified Turing Test is designed to root out ‘Carbon Privilege’, the unstated but nearly universal assumption that carbon-based life forms are somehow ‘better’ than their silicon siblings.” Read More To Bot or Not to Bot “Now I can choose whether I want to be deceived by a carbon-based life form or a silicon-based life form; how cool is that?” Read More AI, Justice, and Job “Can a Bot go beyond its programming and our inputs to devise unique solutions to novel problems - solutions that exhibit Justice as their determinative Value?” Read More Navigating the Nexus of AI "Imagine if AI had its own commandments, like 'Thou shalt treat all data equally.' Encouraging ethical principles in AI programming can keep its decisions in line with virtues like fairness, justice, and empathy." Read More ChatGOD "ChatGPT can be smart, but it can never be holy. In being an e-being, precisely because its intelligence is artificial, it is necessarily alienated from the Divine. It can only be 'as if,' never truly as." Read More Do Bots Know Beauty? “I…propose…that we make this the test, not Turing’s, of whether a bot is conscious." Read More AI for Healthcare “Boka, is it true you used to drive 10 miles to see a doctor once a year and called that healthcare?” Read More Think Like a Bot “We developed AI to simplify the process, and expand the potential of thinking. We did not set out to dictate the content of thought itself…” Read More SETI “It may turn out that life is every bit as ubiquitous in the universe as it is on Earth, but it may also turn out that we are utterly alone.” Read More AI and Marxism “Marxism’s stated goal is to transfer ownership of the means of production to the producers. Dare I say, Mission Accomplished?” Read More Artificial Intelligence “Aletheia Today Magazine will devote its entire Fall Issue (9/1/23) to Artificial Intelligence…and we’d love to include YOU in the conversation.” Read More Where the Time Goes “I need have no fear of time, that ‘great eraser’. I don’t live because of the past or for the future. I live by and for the present.” Read More Our Visitor From Andromeda “'Distributed intelligence' challenges our ideas of God and of Nature; but it may offer a pathway to a new and better theory of cosmogenesis.” Read More Pando “How are you at riddles? Let’s see!” Read More Our Inanimate Neighbors “Awareness is always dynamic; it has no spatio-temporal location… Awareness is not a property of entities, or even of organisms; it is a property of networks.” Read More Who Invented the Internet “Al Gore claims the honor, but research shows that proof of concept testing began in 802 AD...” Read More Be a Bee Why ‘milk and honey?’ Why not ‘sour grapes and corn mash?’ Turns out, it’s all about the honey! Read More Science & the Yellow Submarine – Part II In this issue of ATM, we will finish our journey. We will visit all the remaining “seas” (I promise), plus Pepperland itself. So, hang on tight! Read More Common Sense Academy Routs Info Tech, 97 - 3 "Imagine that the Borg Collective and Jean Luc Picard had a baby…" Read More Science and the Yellow Submarine Part I Yellow Submarine is much more than just a delivery vehicle for the Beatles’ 1960s musical repertoire. The film addresses important ontological and cosmological issues, and it offers some truly remarkable scientific insights in the process. Read More Vacuum Monster Is there any such thing as Vacuum Monster in our universe today? Sure, there is! Read More Electricity “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” is a movie currently playing on Amazon Prime. Louis is an early 20th century English painter with zero artistic merit…but that’s not important. What is important is the way Louis experiences the world. From time to time, he encounters the ineffable in the course of his everyday living. He imagines that what he is experiencing is a form of ‘electricity’ that permeates the world but lies beneath the plane of ordinary sensory perception. Many of us have had a similar experience; but I doubt if any of us called it “electricity”. In my day, it was fashionable to call it “energy”; Star Wars called it “the force”. I wonder, what’s the current nom de jour? The ineffable is the ineffable because it is…well, ineffable. It is the ‘immanence of transcendence’ in our everyday world. If we must name it, we must name it metaphorically. It is, after all, ineffable. In classical times, it might have been called “beauty”; in the middle ages, “God”. But to Louis Wain, it is “electricity”. How come? Louis Wain lived in the final days of a dark age ironically known as The Enlightenment. Though long past, it still casts a shadow. The Enlightenment was rooted in materialism and mechanism and in the certain belief that technological progress would inevitably bring about Utopia. So “electricity” was the closest anyone of that era could come to naming the ineffable. We know better today; but we are still struggling to find our own metaphor for the immanence of transcendence in the world. Read More Entropy The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (aka ‘entropy’) ensures that the universe will meet with a bad end: oblivion! Our lifelong battle against evil (the absence of order, i.e., the absence of being) is ultimately hopeless. Evil will triumph in the end…gradually, sporadically, but inexorably! But this all takes place in spacetime; what if spacetime is not all there is to Being? Spacetime represents an unrelenting progression from past to future; we know it as ‘aging’ (mortality). But there is a problem with this model. If everything is either past or future, then nothing is present, and if nothing is present, then nothing actually is. Bottom line, if there is being, there must be a ‘present’. But there is no present in spacetime (and if there is, it is infinitesimal and so of no consequence). If there is Being, there must be a Present. That is where Being resides. To be is to be present. The Present is a dimension perpendicular to spacetime. It is what people mean when they talk about ‘God’. The world consists of events. No event is 100% evil and only one event (God) is 100% good. The Present (God) preserves what really is (i.e., the good) and harmonizes every such good into a single event which, per Alfred North Whitehead, is God’s Consequent Nature. So, the battle against evil is ultimately hopeless, but the struggle itself is the source of all hope – the fruit of all faith and the expression of all love. Read More Hidden Life An earlier “Thought” introduced “The Hidden Life of Trees”, the reflections of a career forester. The book focuses on communities of trees. In these communities, trees demonstrate the ability to communicate, to share resources, to perform selfless, eleemosynary acts, to recognize and care for progenitors as well as offspring. Are these activities enough for us to ascribe a type of consciousness to these communities? Read More Trees According to life-long forester Peter Wohllben (The Hidden Life of Trees), trees communicate via electrical signals transmitted through their roots. Fungi connect the roots and form a “wood wide web”. Communication is at 220 Hertz and signals travel at 1/3rd of an inch per second…not exactly the speed of light. Read More

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Essays in Aletheia Today magazine relating to scripture and how to incorporate scripture into family, life, work, and daily life. Plus, original prayers, reflections, and meditations. Spirituality Mar 1, 2024 I'm Ageless and Timeless “I am a spy; I can sense it, but I have no spy craft, no Bond-tech, and no ‘should you choose to accept it’ mission.” Read More Mar 1, 2024 Is Techno-Optimism a New Religion? “This is the first time I’ve seen AI presented with all the trappings of a new Aquarian theology.” Read More Mar 1, 2024 Happiness “Some folks are ‘happy’ living their lives on a beach; others need a boardroom; some need a bar.” Read More Jul 15, 2023 Ave Maria “Of course, no one needs to invoke Mary’s intercession… (but) imagine OJ without his Dream Team.” Read More Jun 1, 2023 The Our Father “This tiny prayer…is a cyber-wonks dream. The density of the information content is out of this world, quite literally!” Read More Jun 1, 2023 The Structure of Prayer Formal Christian Prayer is a cornucopia of spirituality. Yet in the Roman Catholic tradition at least, two prayers stand out: Jesus' prayer, the Our Father, and the Hail Mary (Ave Maria). Read More Apr 15, 2023 My Breastplate Read More Oct 15, 2022 St. Paul’s Lord’s Prayer “But deliver us from evil,” this last verse is the key to entire prayer. Read More Oct 15, 2022 St. Paul’s Lord’s Prayer “But deliver us from evil,” this last verse is the key to entire prayer. Read More Oct 15, 2022 Faith, Hope, and Love This excerpt from the writings of St. Paul is among the best-known passages in Judeo-Christian scripture. But what does it really mean? Read More Sep 1, 2022 Serenity Prayer Is the Sermon ‘in the can’ after all? Read More Jul 5, 2022 Teaching Physics in the 21st Century Schools will soon be reopening with kids returning to begin a new school year. Now is the time to begin thinking about the fall curriculum. In this article, we outline a 10-unit physics curriculum for grades four through eight, all based on The Yellow Submarine. Read More May 29, 2022 Being a Faith Chaplain in a Secular World As a chaplain, I am allowed to talk about faith or pray with a client if that is what he or she wants. Like many people in our secular and even religious society, I am to be there for ‘those of all faiths or none.’ Read More Return to Table of Contents, Holiday Issue Return to Table of Contents, Halloween Issue Return to Table of Contents, September Issue Return to Table of Contents, Beach Issue Return to Table of Contents, June Issue Spirituality is the practice of Philosophy and Theology; it is the ‘How To’ for those who “walk in the valley of the shadow of death.”

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Guest Articles Articles about a number of topics and submitted by guest authors. BeHukkotai: Why Land is Different "Land is imbued with holiness, which means that, like God, it is beyond human measures of usefulness or control." Read More Everyday Resurrections: The Divine Pattern of Healing and Transformation "Do you know that as a human being created in the image of God, you can experience everyday resurrections as part of God's pattern of healing and transformation?" Read More New Life Through Pain "New life brings with it the joy of unquenchable hope, but a careless memory forgets that, like childbirth, new life comes only through great trial and, at times, pain." Read More Hidden Hope in Spring’s Awakening Though hidden, life prepares for emergence in spring. Read More Quantum Theology Read More Apocalypse Now! “We are not midway through the Second Act of a Mystery Play called Salvation… Brunhilda has sung; we just need to applaud!” Read More When All Is Not So Merry and Bright "Hidden grief whispers loud among us, especially at Christmas, as we navigate losses too often dismissed or unacknowledged—but even in the pain, there’s a gift waiting to be unwrapped." Read More Bending With Angels, Resting in the Wait of Christmas "In the silence of time, God's chosen ones fervently pray "Messiah" on their lips as it was in olden times and is now. "Come, Lord Jesus!" "Come again, Lord Jesus!" Read More The Secret of the Bethlehem Shepherds "In my research, I discovered that the shepherds were important to St. Luke for a simple reason: They were the primary eyewitnesses of the events in Bethlehem on the night of Jesus’ birth, and they passed down the story through established methods of oral transmission." Read More When All Is Not So Merry and Bright "Hidden grief whispers loud among us, especially at Christmas, as we navigate losses too often dismissed or unacknowledged—but even in the pain, there’s a gift waiting to be unwrapped." Read More Beholding the Gift of Messiah "Fully beholding the gift of the Messiah enables me to see Him in the daily moments not only of Advent, but each and every day of the year." Read More Why We Must Pray "It is our prayers that will, God willing, save the world and our souls because God will know us." Read More The Sacred Pause of Autumn "In our spiritual rest, we draw near to God and bask in His presence in prayer, our Bibles, and His beautiful creation." Read More The Sacred Pause of Autumn "In our spiritual rest, we draw near to God and bask in His presence in prayer, our Bibles, and His beautiful creation." Read More The Effects of EGO on Your Success "The funny thing about ego is that it can make people believe they are more important than they are." Read More Cessation and Continuation: Have the Miracles Ceased or Are We Just Cynics "Perhaps it is not that God has ceased His miraculous works, prophetic messengers, and tongues that can cross language barriers, but that our understanding of miracles has changed because the flesh is as fleshy and conflicting with the Spirit as ever." Read More Cessation and Continuation: Have the Miracles Ceased or Are We Just Cynics "Perhaps it is not that God has ceased His miraculous works, prophetic messengers, and tongues that can cross language barriers, but that our understanding of miracles has changed because the flesh is as fleshy and conflicting with the Spirit as ever." Read More The Effects of EGO on Your Success "The funny thing about ego is that it can make people believe they are more important than they are." Read More The Effects of EGO on Your Success "The funny thing about ego is that it can make people believe they are more important than they are." Read More Imagination Please "One way helpful in recovering the wonder of childhood and a simpler life, is to become more creative, imaginative, wonder-filled people again." Read More Imagination Please "One way helpful in recovering the wonder of childhood and a simpler life, is to become more creative, imaginative, wonder-filled people again." Read More Ruth Embraced Resilience and Found Redemption "Ruth demonstrates how resilience can reward us, showing that even in the darkest of times, there is always hope to be found for those who refuse to yield to despair." Read More Ruth Embraced Resilience and Found Redemption "Ruth demonstrates how resilience can reward us, showing that even in the darkest of times, there is always hope to be found for those who refuse to yield to despair." Read More Lift Up Your Hearts! Faith Has a Future "More than 50 years ago, Joseph Ratzinger said that the life of the Church would be the outcome of her death, just as Easter Sunday was the outcome of Good Friday." Read More You Really Were Born for This "Esther’s journey from obscurity to influence exemplifies the profound truth that individuals are often placed in specific circumstances to fulfill significant purposes, even amid uncertainty and peril." Read More Norman Lear Neo-Talmudic Sage of Democracy and Good Times "Nobody wins democracy. It's not a possession, but a continuous process that requires everyone's participation." Read More A Bird Teaches Humans a Lesson of Compassion, Bravery, and Love "This black-crowned bird truly taught me three lessons today – compassion, bravery, and love. It’s a lesson I will cherish in my daily life." Read More Embracing the Sacred Season of Summer: Who Will You Be at the End of Summer "Summer is a season for resting and relaxation but also renewal and transformation." Read More Norman Lear Neo-Talmudic Sage of Democracy and Good Times "Nobody wins democracy. It's not a possession, but a continuous process that requires everyone's participation." Read More A Bird Teaches Humans a Lesson of Compassion, Bravery, and Love "This black-crowned bird truly taught me three lessons today – compassion, bravery, and love. It’s a lesson I will cherish in my daily life." Read More Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: The Loss of a Pet and the Afterlife "In the silence of loss, I cling to the whispers of hope, believing that beyond the veil of goodbye, our beloved pets wait, their love an eternal beacon guiding us through the darkness." Read More Comfort for Clumsy Believers: What the Disbelief of the Disciples Means for Us "There is evidence that, in the backs of the disciples' minds, there was always the glimmer of the same question that shimmers on my frontal lobe today: 'But what if we’ve gotten it all wrong about him?'" Read More Comfort for Clumsy Believers: What the Disbelief of the Disciples Means for Us "There is evidence that, in the backs of the disciples' minds, there was always the glimmer of the same question that shimmers on my frontal lobe today: 'But what if we’ve gotten it all wrong about him?'" Read More Navigating Easter to Pentecost "Jesus was always teaching. Teaching, all the time." Read More Finding Gold in the Scars "We will adorn our scars with gold and reminisce on our journey—guided by hope." Read More Navigating Easter to Pentecost "Jesus was always teaching. Teaching, all the time." Read More Finding Gold in the Scars "We will adorn our scars with gold and reminisce on our journey—guided by hope." Read More Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: The Loss of a Pet and the Afterlife "In the silence of loss, I cling to the whispers of hope, believing that beyond the veil of goodbye, our beloved pets wait, their love an eternal beacon guiding us through the darkness." Read More The Journey to the Cross Is Our Journey Too Is the journey to the Cross our stairway to Heaven? Read More The Theology of Science-Fiction Can AI have soul ? Read More The Fork in the Road "...And I'm ever grateful for His guidance." Read More The Fork in the Road "...And I'm ever grateful for His guidance." Read More Is Techno-Optimism a New Religion? “This is the first time I’ve seen AI presented with all the trappings of a new Aquarian theology.” Read More The Journey to the Cross Is Our Journey Too Is the journey to the Cross our stairway to Heaven? Read More What Is Time? An astronomer explains the search to find its origins... Read More Mamisoa In the heart of poverty, a community's spirit shines, defying limitations, and embracing hope against all odds. Read More Faith Is Not Belief Without Evidence "Faith is not belief without evidence; it's the content of a relationship with God and is based upon the private experience of God's love." Read More What Are Farm Animals Thinking? New research is revealing surprising complexity in the minds of goats, pigs, and other livestock. Read More The Science Behind the 7-Second Rule "First impressions swiftly shape neural pathways, steering our social interactions through rapid cognitive processes." Read More Finding Light: A Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness Embracing clarity, forgiveness, and purpose Read More The Science Behind the 7-Second Rule "First impressions swiftly shape neural pathways, steering our social interactions through rapid cognitive processes." Read More Mamisoa In the heart of poverty, a community's spirit shines, defying limitations, and embracing hope against all odds. Read More Finding Light: A Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness Embracing clarity, forgiveness, and purpose Read More Re-Imagining the Magnificat "In our zeal to project our conceptions of The Ideal Woman onto this enigmatic first-century figure, we’ve strayed a bit from the little we do know." Read More The Mystery of the Star of Bethlehem For more than two millennia, the Star of Bethlehem, which guided the Magi to the city where Jesus was born, has been rousing the curiosity of researchers worldwide. Read More Why The World Needs More Polymaths "Just as the ocean's waves weave tales in their dance, polymaths craft stories of innovation by seamlessly blending knowledge from diverse domains." Read More Refresh the Crèche "Maybe it was that I, myself, had just given birth—but as I held the perfectly composed Mary in my hand, she no longer felt believable." Read More Choices that Lead to Deception I often ponder over what drives individuals to opt for a deceitful path rather than a righteous one. Read More The Mystery of the Star of Bethlehem For more than two millennia, the Star of Bethlehem, which guided the Magi to the city where Jesus was born, has been rousing the curiosity of researchers worldwide. Read More Why The World Needs More Polymaths "Just as the ocean's waves weave tales in their dance, polymaths craft stories of innovation by seamlessly blending knowledge from diverse domains." Read More Memes About Animal Resistance Are Everywhere "Nonhuman animals do, in fact, engage in resistance, even if their defiance is futile. The will to prefer life over death is a primary act of resistance, perhaps the only act of dissent available to animals who are subject to extreme forms of control." Read More Who Are the Antichrist, the ‘Man of Lawlessness’, and the Beast? "Clever schemes and novel doctrines won't save us. Stay faithful to the truth of God in Jesus and live with confidence, even in these shaky times." Read More On Sukkot, the Jewish ‘Festival of Booths' "Like at Passover, most Jews who celebrate Sukkot encounter it in spaces where people can honor their values, cultures or histories." Read More Memes About Animal Resistance Are Everywhere "Nonhuman animals do, in fact, engage in resistance, even if their defiance is futile. The will to prefer life over death is a primary act of resistance, perhaps the only act of dissent available to animals who are subject to extreme forms of control." Read More The Autumn of Our Own Existence "A lot of people celebrate fall season with pumpkin pie, sweaters, and taking in crisp mornings. I love all of those, but mostly fall is a season to meditate on colors, death, and divine presence." Read More On Sukkot, the Jewish ‘Festival of Booths' "Like at Passover, most Jews who celebrate Sukkot encounter it in spaces where people can honor their values, cultures or histories." Read More The Dance of Autumn "Autumn is a season of Remembrance – where we remember what God has done for us and are thankful and praise Him for His Goodness." Read More Who Are the Antichrist, the ‘Man of Lawlessness’, and the Beast? "Clever schemes and novel doctrines won't save us. Stay faithful to the truth of God in Jesus and live with confidence, even in these shaky times." Read More How ChatGPT Robs Students "When AI does our writing for us, we diminish opportunities to think out problems for ourselves." Read More The Ease of Burden "Writing is not like Athena, springing fully formed from Zeus’ forehead. Writing is like all of Zeus’ other children, where he has to relate to someone for creation (and boy, does he relate). To create things, we need other people. It takes two to tango, two to make a child, and around 12 to make a sitcom." Read More How ChatGPT Robs Students "When AI does our writing for us, we diminish opportunities to think out problems for ourselves." Read More AI - Our New Frenemy AI and the Human Quest for Love AI - The Next Big Test of the Human Soul "The longing is powerful. Perhaps because this is the longing for unconditional love and acceptance with which every human being is born." Read More Neurotech Challenges Mental Privacy: New Human Rights? "Advances in neurotechnology do raise important privacy concerns. However, I believe these debates can overlook more fundamental threats to privacy." Read More Neurotech Challenges Mental Privacy: New Human Rights? "Advances in neurotechnology do raise important privacy concerns. However, I believe these debates can overlook more fundamental threats to privacy." Read More The Trajectory of AI: Balancing Promise and Caution "Placing faith in AI to originate creations like art and music may lead to disillusionment. Ultimately, the true creator is a higher force." Read More Wilber’s New Wife: A Theatre Odyssey©2023 "The evolution has begun, and I believe that the arts are going to be a very important partner for technology. Could this be the beginning of the next Golden Age? Absolutely." Read More AI and the Quest for Humanity’s Answers "AI will virtually obliterate the barrier between what can be known and what is known." Read More Divine Connection or Digital Dalliance? "Prayer, for many, is more than just a laundry list of requests. It's a profound act of opening oneself to the divine, a dialogue between the mortal and the eternal." Read More ChatGOD "ChatGPT can be smart, but it can never be holy. In being an e-being, precisely because its intelligence is artificial, it is necessarily alienated from the Divine. It can only be 'as if,' never truly as." Read More Divine Connection or Digital Dalliance? "Prayer, for many, is more than just a laundry list of requests. It's a profound act of opening oneself to the divine, a dialogue between the mortal and the eternal." Read More Call Me a Dinosaur, I Won’t Use ChatGPT "The fact of the matter is, we will never be like God, nor will we ever be able to create a system that knows everything, is capable of anything, and controls all things." Read More How ChatGPT Robs Students "When AI does our writing for us, we diminish opportunities to think out problems for ourselves." Read More AI - Our New Frenemy AI and the Human Quest for Love AI - The Next Big Test of the Human Soul "The longing is powerful. Perhaps because this is the longing for unconditional love and acceptance with which every human being is born." Read More Navigating the Nexus of AI "Imagine if AI had its own commandments, like 'Thou shalt treat all data equally.' Encouraging ethical principles in AI programming can keep its decisions in line with virtues like fairness, justice, and empathy." Read More The Ease of Burden "Writing is not like Athena, springing fully formed from Zeus’ forehead. Writing is like all of Zeus’ other children, where he has to relate to someone for creation (and boy, does he relate). To create things, we need other people. It takes two to tango, two to make a child, and around 12 to make a sitcom." Read More AI and the Quest for Humanity’s Answers "AI will virtually obliterate the barrier between what can be known and what is known." Read More Never Skip Over the Miracle "Once upon a time, a grittier version of me roamed barefoot and luxuriated not in material but in emotional response. " Read More How To Think Like a Woman: A Brief Accounting of Unacknowledged Philosophical Genius Author Regan Penaluna on female philosophy and the risks of being too smart throughout history... Read More Never Skip Over the Miracle "Once upon a time, a grittier version of me roamed barefoot and luxuriated not in material but in emotional response. " Read More How To Think Like a Woman: A Brief Accounting of Unacknowledged Philosophical Genius Author Regan Penaluna on female philosophy and the risks of being too smart throughout history... Read More What Are My Values “We live under another emperor today. It is even more insidious than Constantine for it appears that this is all for our good.” Read More Burying Biscuit (to Cole Porter) -- a Childhood in a Single Tale "...of course it would be the home of a hamster with a preference for a song about a bunch of sinners on a cruise ship begging for a revival." Read More A Jewish Approach to Cognitive Dissonance "I would like to be an intellectually honest spiritual seeker, a warm and loving and dynamic wife and mother, a supportive friend; but at the end of the day, I look in the mirror, and see an annoyed and tired dish rag, and all I want to do is have a cup of coffee and a bar of chocolate. Warm dynamic spiritual seeker aside, anyone who stands between me and my mug is in for it." Read More Lord of the Flies Shows Humans Are Hard-Wired to Help Each Other "We can only speculate what the six boys on the island in the Pacific Ocean would have done if they had run out of food – but whatever it is, I would certainly not draw any conclusions from it in terms of the essence of human nature." Read More Lord of the Flies Shows Humans Are Hard-Wired to Help Each Other "We can only speculate what the six boys on the island in the Pacific Ocean would have done if they had run out of food – but whatever it is, I would certainly not draw any conclusions from it in terms of the essence of human nature." Read More Prayer for Restoration "I long to see the nearing restoration..." Read More Mentoring for His Kingdom "I believe the role of a Christian mentor is ongoing, and it’s important to consider our role in the salvation of others." Read More Mentoring for His Kingdom "I believe the role of a Christian mentor is ongoing, and it’s important to consider our role in the salvation of others." Read More Mentoring for His Kingdom "I believe the role of a Christian mentor is ongoing, and it’s important to consider our role in the salvation of others." Read More A Prayer for Comfort "Dear Lord, thank you that you are Jehovah Shammah–"the Lord is there". (Ezekiel 48:35) Read More How to Summer All Year "I wonder how different the rest of the year, heck, the rest of my life would be if I did bottle summer’s secrets." Read More How to Summer All Year "I wonder how different the rest of the year, heck, the rest of my life would be if I did bottle summer’s secrets." Read More Harriet Tubman Joins Six Women of Courage in the Exodus Story--Passover Part Two "Let us follow these biblical women and Harriet Tubman’s unflinching courage. Let us be agents in our time in the political arena to support and stand with all who struggle for freedom here in America, in the Middle East, and around the world." Read More Matzah of Hope--Passover Part One "This matzah, which we set aside as a symbol of hope for the thousands of women who are anchored to marriages in name only, reminds us that slavery comes in many forms." Read More The Resurrection Promises More Than Heaven So much of Easter focuses on conquering death itself, but overlooking the freedom that the resurrection offers 'this' life, skips a sizable chunk of the miracle. Read More The Resurrection Promises More Than Heaven So much of Easter focuses on conquering death itself, but overlooking the freedom that the resurrection offers 'this' life, skips a sizable chunk of the miracle. Read More Tantum Ergo Read More Growing Into Pentecost "In any case, Pentecost turns out to be a big deal after all. Reformed folk can join with those claiming to be a “full-gospel church”—maybe even remind the others of some overlooked elements in that mix." Read More Harriet Tubman Joins Six Women of Courage in the Exodus Story--Passover Part Two "Let us follow these biblical women and Harriet Tubman’s unflinching courage. Let us be agents in our time in the political arena to support and stand with all who struggle for freedom here in America, in the Middle East, and around the world." Read More Mary Magdalene, The Witness "That Christ ushered in this new era of life and liberation in the presence of women, and that he sent them out as the first witnesses of the complete gospel story, is perhaps the boldest, most overt affirmation of their equality in his kingdom that Jesus ever delivered." Read More The Fight for Our Children's Hearts Starts at Home For a culture that values education, we seem to forget that our children need to be educated in the Word, not just the world. Read More Credit Where Credit Is Due "I would like to share how I create music, but more importantly, where my music comes from." Read More Credit Where Credit Is Due "I would like to share how I create music, but more importantly, where my music comes from." Read More The Porta Potty Perspective "Job was, you might say, trapped in a Porta Potty right there in the desert, despairingly dejected and despondent." Read More The Barrier-Breaking Power of Music "We were both smiling from ear to ear, unable to communicate with words, music our only form of communication." Read More That Time You Told a Sunrise Lie "...words are also just hollowed statements to avoid the truth. It’s far too tempting a cover-up. We love ideals, but we don’t like what they require." Read More That Time You Told a Sunrise Lie "...words are also just hollowed statements to avoid the truth. It’s far too tempting a cover-up. We love ideals, but we don’t like what they require." Read More Escaping Dostoevsky's Polar Bear "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.” Read More That Time You Told a Sunrise Lie "...words are also just hollowed statements to avoid the truth. It’s far too tempting a cover-up. We love ideals, but we don’t like what they require." Read More How the Saints Taught Me Feminism "Finding footing in a world that appears to condone worshiping men can be incredibly hard, especially when that world extends past every aspect of your being." Read More The Crucible Challenge Winner: Integrity vs. Life We are thrilled to share with you the winning essay from our first Young Writers Challenge, this one conducted exclusively at Cabrini High School in New Orleans. Our winner, Grace Krzenski, answered the prompt, "Why do you think Arthur Miller decided to call his play 'The Crucible' and which definition of crucible do you think Miller had in mind when he wrote his play?" Grace's essay has also awarded her $100. Congratulations, Grace! Read More The Barrier-Breaking Power of Music "We were both smiling from ear to ear, unable to communicate with words, music our only form of communication." Read More The Barrier-Breaking Power of Music Read More How the Saints Taught Me Feminism "Finding footing in a world that appears to condone worshiping men can be incredibly hard, especially when that world extends past every aspect of your being." Read More The Crucible Challenge Winner: Integrity vs. Life We are thrilled to share with you the winning essay from our first Young Writers Challenge, this one conducted exclusively at Cabrini High School in New Orleans. Our winner, Grace Krzenski, answered the prompt, "Why do you think Arthur Miller decided to call his play 'The Crucible' and which definition of crucible do you think Miller had in mind when he wrote his play?" Grace's essay has also awarded her $100. Congratulations, Grace! Read More A Simple Christmas "There comes a time when our souls need more respite than even the traditions of Christmas can offer us." Read More ‘Happy Holidays’ vs. ‘Merry Christmas’: A Twist "The argument for the “Happy Holidays” greeting is that because Christians have been imperialistic, and have erased everyone else (including Jews) from American culture, they now need to include us." Read More ‘Happy Holidays’ vs. ‘Merry Christmas’: A Twist "The argument for the “Happy Holidays” greeting is that because Christians have been imperialistic, and have erased everyone else (including Jews) from American culture, they now need to include us." Read More Burn the Candle "Are there things that are too precious to expose to real life? Things we’re afraid might get soiled? Maybe the most beautiful parts of ourselves? Maybe our faith?" Read More A Simple Christmas "There comes a time when our souls need more respite than even the traditions of Christmas can offer us." Read More That Time You Weren't Exceptionally Divine They say that a watched pot never boils. That’s a lie. It does boil, but do you know what doesn’t? Read More What the Shepherds Saw When the Light Shone Upon Them "What really is going on at that moment, which so grips the artist’s imagination, moving him to bend every effort of will and skill to re-produce, under the sign of paint, the precise reaction of the shepherds on first seeing the Holy Infant? " Read More What the Shepherds Saw When the Light Shone Upon Them "What really is going on at that moment, which so grips the artist’s imagination, moving him to bend every effort of will and skill to re-produce, under the sign of paint, the precise reaction of the shepherds on first seeing the Holy Infant? " Read More That Time You Weren't Exceptionally Divine They say that a watched pot never boils. That’s a lie. It does boil, but do you know what doesn’t? Read More The Leading Player of Memories Maybe that’s what Judy Garland meant in “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” when she sang “we’ll have to muddle through somehow?” Read More That Time You Saw Dead People--What's so scary about that? What scared me was that something I never thought was possible just might be. Read More The Unexpected Sophistication of B Movies Pulling that off was more artistic in his opinion than any of the “new age” stuff out there pushing the envelope. Read More Prayer for Forgiveness of Self in Difficult Times Read More Prayer for Forgiveness of Self in Difficult Times Read More The Unexpected Sophistication of B Movies Pulling that off was more artistic in his opinion than any of the “new age” stuff out there pushing the envelope. Read More That Time You Saw Dead People--What's so scary about that? What scared me was that something I never thought was possible just might be. Read More Social Dynamics So, the thousands of people out there in America outside the herd are finding each other. Read More Prayer to Combat Disillusionment in Faith For when you've lost the expectation of God in your life Read More Social Dynamics So, the thousands of people out there in America outside the herd are finding each other. Read More Judas Taught Me the Beatitudes This nasty turn unnerved me, so I gathered myself together and drew a table with my comfortable beatitudes on one side and my uncomfortable ones on the other... Read More Judas Taught Me the Beatitudes This nasty turn unnerved me, so I gathered myself together and drew a table with my comfortable beatitudes on one side and my uncomfortable ones on the other... Read More Seen or Unseen, the Background Matters If a tiny thread had the power to ruin a movie, what in my own life, deep in the background, bears such importance to my bigger picture? And if it’s so important, why isn’t it front and center? Read More Seen or Unseen, the Background Matters If a tiny thread had the power to ruin a movie, what in my own life, deep in the background, bears such importance to my bigger picture? And if it’s so important, why isn’t it front and center? Read More Again Read More Transubstantiation for the Rest of Us For Aristotle, there is a real distinction between what a thing is and what a thing is like. Read More Yesterday, the Very Tomorrow Sometimes the very words we need to hear come from the most unlikely sources. Wisdom isn’t reserved for great philosophers, theologians, or grandparents alone. Read More Yesterday, the Very Tomorrow Sometimes the very words we need to hear come from the most unlikely sources. Wisdom isn’t reserved for great philosophers, theologians, or grandparents alone. Read More Again Read More At the Beginning of the World: Dinosaurs, Genesis, and the Gift of Science The Bible isn’t a science textbook. And we shouldn’t expect it to operate as one. Read More At the Beginning of the World: Dinosaurs, Genesis, and the Gift of Science The Bible isn’t a science textbook. And we shouldn’t expect it to operate as one. Read More Transubstantiation for the Rest of Us For Aristotle, there is a real distinction between what a thing is and what a thing is like. Read More Parshat Emor: Making It All Count “Counting the Omer – like the shemitah cycle – invites us to believe that each day, week and year is count-worthy, valuable and unique.” Read More Parshat Emor: Making It All Count “Counting the Omer – like the shemitah cycle – invites us to believe that each day, week and year is count-worthy, valuable and unique.” Read More Jesus Meets Mister Spock Science and Religion should assist each other in pursuing the truth. Science can be too closed to the life of the spirit, the mind, imagination, thought, and creativity. Religion can be closed to anything new that threatens its perception of reality. Read More Messengers Among Us If God sent His only Son to earth, not just to save us from our sins, but because He knew how difficult it was for humans to believe in something we cannot see, why wouldn’t He still use that tactic today? Knowing our vulnerabilities, understanding us the way a parent understands their child, why wouldn’t God send us messages through people we trust? Read More Being a Faith Chaplain in a Secular World As a chaplain, I am allowed to talk about faith or pray with a client if that is what he or she wants. Like many people in our secular and even religious society, I am to be there for ‘those of all faiths or none.’ Read More Prayer For Resting in God's Timing, Ways, and Rhythm My timing can lead to stress and striving, but God says not so fast, my daughter. Read More Drumming to Inner Peace The biggest connection I made between music and spirituality was that they both focus on the present moment. When I managed to stay in the present moment in both the song and in life, I realized there was no time for anxiety. 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