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I need your advice. I have a friend who is going to another extreme.

He feels that all churches teach legalism, all pastors have their own
agenda and churches should not have walls but “engage the darkside”.
For this reason, he has decided to not attend church at all. He has no
plans [...]

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The issue of the “emerging church” is picayune compared to the advent of the “post-human”.
Since I use the term “post-human” in my writing quite a bit, I thought I would offer a brief
piece on what I mean when I use this term.

Besides the obvious influence of too much science fiction, I [...]

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Dean and I were working at his dining room table last week in between spurts of conversation about the future. Erica walks in, listens for a sec and then contributes a thought that went something like this: In the past computers were large and the goal was to make them smaller. [...]

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The Birth of Human Machines
Rodney Brooks, professor of computer science and director of the Artificial Intelligence lab at MIT, writes that within the next fifty years, we will adopt robot technology, silicon and steel into our bodies not to fix something but to improve it.

This is a massive, galaxy-quaking shift [...]

Is Mosaic part of the Emerging Church?

I rarely pay any attention to rants against “into the Mystic…” The editorial early last spring by Brannon Howse was no exception. But, in light of the recent Calvary Chapel statement distancing themselves from the “emerging church”, I though I would finally make a little comment about Brannon’s piece. [...]

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I’ve been writing a series called “The Next Fifty Years” based on my readings in a book by the same title. Recently, I delivered a speech on the topic of how to think about the future. I suggested three windows through which we could peer into possible tomorrows: the trajectory of [...]

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In 1946, only 8,000 homes, all of which were in the USA, had television.

As a child growing up in El Salvador, I remember anticipating the afternoon Disney cartoons. My younger brother, Erwin, and I would sit behind TV trays, eating corn tamales “con crema”, faithfully waiting for the “snow” to stop and the [...]

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I’m reading an article titled, Cosmological Challenges: Are we alone, and Where? The author is Martin Rees, former professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge.

The next frontier for the next fifty years in science, he claims, is to “seek firm evidence for, or against, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.”

Are we alone in [...]

of mystic warriors traveling by camel over the most
hostile terrains for the chance to guide others towards the mystic…

Is it proper to conclude that in very broad strokes Western Culture is –oh, how shall we say it? — better, superior, improved over many other cultures and worth saving? Or is an Islamic future for Europe just as good/bad?