Apr 30, 2019
Philosopher John Gray started his 2007 book “Black Mass” with this declaration: “Modern politics is a chapter in the history of religion.” Now, Gray is an atheist, but he realized that so much of modern politics is an attempt to re-inspire a world originally inspired by religion, especially Christianity.
Gray...
Apr 29, 2019
What is transhumanism, exactly? And how do the ways we interact with technology affect our humanity? These are the questions Jacob Shatzer tackles today on the BreakPoint podcast with John Stonestreet.
Shatzer is assistant professor and associate dean in the school of theology and missions at Union University and the...
Apr 29, 2019
What is transhumanism, exactly? And how do the ways we interact with technology affect our humanity? These are the questions Jacob Shatzer tackles today on the BreakPoint podcast with John Stonestreet.
Shatzer is assistant professor and associate dean in the school of theology and missions at Union University and the...
Apr 29, 2019
In the 1976 made-for-television movie, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” a then-unknown John Travolta introduced Americans to a condition technically called “X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency.” Or, as people have called it since the movie, “bubble boy disease.”
Children with “bubble boy disease”...
Apr 26, 2019
The death toll from the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka continued to climb all week. As of Thursday, the official count was 359 dead.
Reading and listening to reports about the attacks, it’s apparent that the number of victims in Sri Lanka isn’t the only uncertainty. Many people, especially politicians...