Gene Veith

Many Germans are confused and worried. Despite decades of left-leaning political indoctrination in schools, German young people are going to the right and the hard right. What happened?

Drawing on my new book with Trevor Sutton, "Irreplaceable: Humanity, Vocation, and the Limits of Technology," I propose a principle for deciding when to use AI and when not to.

Some more interesting tidbits about the movie have come out: The official trailer has been released. Director Greta Gerwig did an interview about Narna and her faith. And Netflix insiders who have seen the film are ordering reshoots and new editing because the film is “awful.”

Christians tend to associate consciousness with the soul. So they have no problem thinking that a baby is conscious.

When people stop believing in Hell, say two scholars, Hell becomes secularized. Thus, they say, "contemporary society has become a place where citizens visit wrath, judgment, and alienation on one another." The Hell of religion postpones judgment and offers a chance for grace and forgiveness, which do not exist for secular Hell.

Shutting down an AI model only if it kills 50 people. Attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz increase. And the i nterest on our government's debt hits $1 trillion.

On February 24, 1922, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ever since then, the United States, along with European countries, has been

If AI can do our work and replicate our functions, what are we for? Join us in the Word by Word group to share your thoughts.

For the first time, a majority of Americans, 53%, consider Halloween to be one of their favorite holidays. In fact, an even bigger majority, 58%, think Halloween should be a national holiday. What's the attraction? Keith Page discusses "inverted" holidays, both secular and sacred. But today, few celebrate All Saint's Day, so its negative inversion is all we have.

"The Reformation was not a re-forming of the church into something new," Rev. Dr. Christian Preus writes. "That 're' in Reformation points us back. That’s what 're' means in Latin: back. . . .The task of 'always reforming' is the task of always going back to what the church is." That is, to return to the Bible, which pre-dates all church traditions.