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AI for Scholarship: How Machine Learning can Transform the Humanities
by Elias Kruger
December 14, 2018
In a previous blog, I explored how AI will speed up scientific research. In this blog, I will examine the overlooked potential that AI has to transform the Humanities. This connection may not be clear at first since most of these fields do not i...
The Seventh Story | Gareth Higgins and Brian McLaren
by Mike Morrell
December 10, 2018
The following is an excerpt from The Seventh Story, a brand-new release from Gareth Higgins and Brian McLaren about the six stories that divide us and the Seventh Story that unites. It’s paired with a unique, beautifully-illustra...
That Time the Demonic Hypothesis of UFO Stopped Science
by Tony Breeden
December 05, 2018
Last year, former Nevada Senator Harry Reid gave George Knapp an exclusive interview regarding a secret US government study of UFOs from 2007 to 2012. “One aim of the study was to find out the origin of the craft. Intelligence officials ruled out ...
Liberation Through Obedience
December 05, 2018
You might find yourself scoffing at the title of this post, but hear me out. For me, obedience in my religion is quite liberating, especially as a woman. Here’s why.God gave us the greatest commandment through Jesus Christ. The greatest commandmen...
Miracles vs Magic
December 04, 2018
In 1600, during Giordano Bruno’s heresy trial, the inquisitors asked a question: Did he believe Jesus’ miracles were performed by magic? It’s hard for us to understand the significance of this question. In our post-Enlightenment world, this seems...
All Creation Radiant: My Conversation with Matthew Fox
by Mike Morrell
December 02, 2018
As part of our ongoing Cosmic Campfire Book Club with Tripp Fuller of Homebrewed Christianity and ‘Science’ Mike McHargue of The Liturgists, I got to sit down with one of my all-time heroes, Matthew Fox: In our conversation, Matt...
You Have a Future
December 01, 2018
*Below is a copy of a workshop I led at Encircle’s Ignite LGBTQ+ Youth Summit. Feel free to use, change, adapt, or copy for any queer youth projects/presentations.One of the things I love most about the queer community is that we are writing our o...
Capturing Love
November 30, 2018
I got my first Digital SLR camera 10 years ago, just a few months after our first child was born. I didn’t know such happiness existed until I became a mother. The reality of impermanence became strikingly evident as I watched my child change befo...
Technological Valley Of Dry Bones
by Mark Russell
November 29, 2018
The post Technological Valley Of Dry Bones appeared first on The Singularity.
Is It Okay To Be a Mormon?
November 29, 2018
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The Turing oracle: Creative randomness from the beyond
November 27, 2018
Light
November 21, 2018
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UFO International Project’s Plagiarized Claim That Aliens Invented Religion
by Tony Breeden
November 20, 2018
The anonymous authors of UFO International Project (who nonetheless are advocates of Disclosure, just not for themselves, obviously) claim in a November 19, 2015 article that “Aliens Are Coming Back To Retrieve ‘Their’ Religion.” In fact, they cla...
Fight Oppression, Not Oranges
November 20, 2018
Of all the controversial topics I write about, the topic I get the most resistance to is not queer issues, but plural marriage. Generally, Mormon feminists don’t like plural marriage. That might be a bit of an understatement. There have been blog ...
Harold L Armstrong’s Argument Against Corporal Living Beings Living Outside Earth
by Tony Breeden
November 16, 2018
The June 1970 edition (Vol. 7 No. 1) of the Creation Research Society Quarterly stressed cosmology. One of journal’s contributors was Harold L. Armstrong (1921-1985). Armstrong was an early member of the Creation Research Society and a Professor o...
What's in a Name?
November 16, 2018
I recently attended the “What’s in a Name?” panel discussion hosted by Utah Valley University’s Mormon Studies Department. During the Q&A section, I asked a question concerning the risk of queer Mormon identity labels being erased after Presid...
The Realities of Social Construction: Interview by Micah Redding, Executive Director of the Christian Transhumanist Society
https://www.buzzsprout.com/67135/862487-the-realities-of-social-construction-interview-by-micah-redding-executive-director-of-the-christian-transhumanist-society.mp3November 15, 2018
Joint project with the Christian Transhumanist Podcast! https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/podcastLots of interesting questions. How can we love religion when so many are hurt? How do we describe the reality of social construction? Does Jesus ...
God as a Mother
November 15, 2018
Dear Heavenly Mother, Today, two of my children fought. As one physically injured the other, my primitive instincts kicked in to protect the injured child with any force necessary. However, before I could even move, I saw the face of the offender....
God: Ever-New And Ancient (Naming the Unnamable) | Matthew Fox
by Mike Morrell
November 15, 2018
How many names for Divinity are there? Do the names for God change? Ought they change as humans evolve and as circumstances of life evolve around us? Matthew Fox reveals the urgent need for ancient-future names of God.
McLean v Arkansas and the Demonic Hypothesis of UFO
by Tony Breeden
November 14, 2018
I was reminded recently that the Demonic Hypothesis of UFO played a role during 1981’s McLean v Arkansas Board of Education court case when it was used by evolutionists to discredit Dr. Norman Geisler’s testimony. On March 1, 1982, fellow creation...
Is ‘Oumuamua an Alien Spacecraft?
by Tony Breeden
November 13, 2018
Recently, two Harvard university researchers proposed that a cigar-shaped astronomical object dubbed “‘Oumuamua” was actually an alien probe ship. Two things need to be said about that theory up front. This isn’t likely. And this isn’t a new theor...
Re-Thinking Hellfire for a Christianity Without Insanity | Boyd Purcell
by Mike Morrell
November 10, 2018
In religious literature, suffering and punishment in fire are symbolic of the spiritually corrective nature of metaphorical fire. A literal interpretation of the symbolism of fire is a major cause of fear, spiritual insanity, and...
God in My Head? | Josh Grisetti
by Mike Morrell
November 09, 2018
The following is an excerpt from God in My Head, Josh Grisetti’s divine dialogue memoir with blunt comic undertones. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers...
Jesus Was An Abductee! Chris Ward on Alien Abductions
by Tony Breeden
November 07, 2018
The late Pastor Chris Ward (1948-2015) was one of the presenters of the First Christian Symposium on Aliens in July of 2009. The Symposium sparked a new wave of interest in the Demonic Hypothesis of UFO, resuscitated from charismatic deliverance m...
Our Resistance, My Resistance: Enough for the Whole World | Making America Great Again | David N Moore
by Mike Morrell
November 06, 2018
The following is an excerpt of Making America Great Again, a winsome and prophetic text by David N Moore. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Our Res...
No Pity for Nietzsche
November 03, 2018
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An Immanent God Meets Us in Our Pain: Science Mike & ‘Mystic’ Mike Mix it Up!
by Mike Morrell
October 29, 2018
A few days ago, before the sold-out Evolving Faith Conference kicked off at Montreat, ‘Science’ Mike McHargue and I were able to grab an hour together to talk about some of our most vulnerable experiences with God, and how these ...
Queer Abuse
October 26, 2018
The Church released their new “Abuse Help” website and from what I have read, I am impressed. It seems thoughtful, helpful, and sincere. This would have been something I would have liked to see when I was assaulted by a priesthood holder as a teen...
When You Quote the Bible At Me | Leatherbound Terrorism | Chris Kratzer
by Mike Morrell
October 26, 2018
The following is an excerpt of Leatherbound Terrorism, Chris Kratzer‘s incisive and confessional memoir-manifesto about life in Christ after evangelicalism. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review ...
Personal consciousness as a strange attractor in the mindscape
October 24, 2018
Maximum Jailbreak, and the legacy of Stephen Hawking
October 22, 2018
For Time and All Eternity
October 22, 2018
I love my Latter-day Saint family and friends, immensely. I love our common theology, Mormonism. Not only that, I believe it. I want to build Zion with them. I want celestial glory as an eternal family with them. I want to participate in theosis w...
Brother John: A Monk, a Pilgrim and the Purpose of Life | August Turak
by Mike Morrell
October 18, 2018
The following is an excerpt of Brother John: A Monk, a Pilgrim and the Purpose of Life, an award-winning true story about the surprising power of generosity – now beautifully illustrated in an all-ages rendering. It’s a featured ...
Dear Millennials
October 18, 2018
Dear Millennials,Our generation is technologically connected in ways our parents never imagined. Social media allows us to hear what’s happening around the world in a matter of seconds. We watch videos of cops shooting black men only moments after...
Are Cell Phones and Drones Foiling Satan’s Nefarious UFO Deception?
by Tony Breeden
October 17, 2018
Christian UFO experts espousing the Demonic Hypothesis of UFO assure us that UFOs are a Satanic deception, yet, if this is the case, why are UFO reports in such a steep decline? The fact that they are statistically in decline is undeniable at this...
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
by Ryan Hauck
October 16, 2018
Originally posted on Hapgood: Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oregon shooting. I’m a pretty ...
Queer, Mormon, and Transhuman: Part IV
October 15, 2018
I’ve received a bit of feedback from peers about my work not being relevant enough to transhumanism and that I focus more on the “queer” and “Mormon” than “transhumanism.” A casual reading of my work might understandably lead someone to this concl...
Tales of the Turing Church: Public draft
October 13, 2018
Is Transhumanism a Challenge or an Opportunity for the Christian Faith?
by Elias Kruger
October 11, 2018
This week, Ravi Zachariah’s Institute here in Atlanta hosted an event entitled: “Should we fear Artificial Intelligence?” In it, British Mathematician and Christian Apologist John Lennox gave a lecture on the challenge of AI and Transhumanism to t...
Response to Dr John Lennox at RZIM on AI and the church #TrendingQuestions
by Mark Russell
October 11, 2018
A response of Hope to dr. John Lennox's sermon at Ravi Zacharias Ministries, asking the question if we should fear artificial intelligence. The post Response to Dr John Lennox at RZIM on AI and the church #TrendingQuestions appeared first on The...
This is Heaven
October 10, 2018
William: You know how I was dead when I was a baby and then the doctors brought me back to life?Me: Yes. It was very scary. William: Well, if I died and now I’m alive this is heaven right now.Me: Huh. I never thought of it that way.William: But wh...
Gratitude and Reality
by Ryan Hauck
October 09, 2018
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero Richest Blessings to all of my readers. If you are Canadian, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that the long weekend was a fruitful one...
49 Thoughts on October 2018 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
October 08, 2018
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The Valley of Dry Bones in light of Artificial Intelligence.
by Mark Russell
October 07, 2018
In my Christian walk, the valley of dry bones has always been one of those stories that didn’t make a lot of sense. Yesterday I was able to see that story in a completely new perspective that I would like to share. However, before we go there, I h...
No Gospel for Aliens? Creation.com’s Interpretive Overreach Reveals a Major Misunderstanding of the Fall
by Tony Breeden
October 07, 2018
Shaun Doyle recently fielded an alleged letter to Creation Ministries International which cautioned against interpretive overreach on the subject of extraterrestrial life, lest we repeat the historical embarrassment of hitching our star to geocent...
Thinspace
October 05, 2018
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Isaac Watts, Extraterrestrials and Isaiah 45:18
by Tony Breeden
October 02, 2018
Dr. Danny Faulkner has written a post in which he takes issue with the pro-extraterrestrial opinion of Isaac Watts, the “Godfather of English Hymnody.” In his lifetime, Watts composed around 750 hymns, including “Joy to the World,” “Alas! and Did ...
Why Do You Hate Men?
October 01, 2018
He asked me, “Why do you hate men?”The question took me off guard. I scanned through my mental rolodex of people I love. Many of the closest people in my life are men. My best friend is a man. I am raising two men whom I would live and die for. I’...
The Fermi Paradox: Looking for Smoke Signals in a Cell Phone Universe
by Tony Breeden
September 29, 2018
The Fermi Paradox has plagued folks who ponder the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life ever since Enrico Fermi asked the question, “Where is everybody?” I think it’s time we admit how presumptuous his question is. Recently, I read ano...
The 45th Parallel: What Alien Abductions and Satanic Ritual Abuse Have In Common
by Tony Breeden
September 29, 2018
Some proponents of the Demonic Hypothesis of UFO have made a big deal about a study presented on the third night of an MIT (yes, THAT MIT) alien abduction conference held June 13-17, 1992. During that conference, California therapist Gwen Dean not...