Evolution and Reductionism
“In our world,” said Eustace, “ a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.” “Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.” -C.S. Lewis in The Voyage…
A Question of Timing
“And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.” Mark 8:30 “But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” And Jesus said, “I…
A Review of Obvious Child
“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. .. “What do you mean?” Gandalf said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you…
A Review of The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define by Lance Lawhon
This review is a response to Jenell Williams Paris’ book, The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define. Her book is an in-depth review and critique of the sexual identity phenomenon. Here she examines its roots,…
Seven Stanzas at Easter by John Updike
Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, Each soft spring…
Discussion Questions for Her
1) What’s the weirdest question you’ve ever asked Siri? How did she respond? 2) Did you find Her romantic, creepy, melancholy, or hopeful? Feel free to insert your own favorite adjective here if none of these work. 3) The first…
The Real Test: a Review of Ex Machina
“To be or not to be- that is the question.” Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 Things were changing when Mortimer Adler published his The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes in 1966. The centuries-old belief that there is…