I recently expressed doubt to a non-technical, but news-following person, in the emergence of highly effective AI systems. I didn’t think AI was all that impressive. …

Every once in a while, an Anglo-Saxon should open up his word-hoard make a formal boast [note my sophisticated Beowulf reference]. The English tongue is a fine thing to boast over: if nothing else, the Anglo-Saxons managed to get a form of their language seeded and spread across the earth…

Preamble: Histogram of the Saints What is Christianity? When someone makes a claim about the “teachings of Christianity” or a claim about “what a true Christian would do” how do we know how to answer? We could look to the Church Fathers, we could try to read the Bible and…

The Patriarch of Belgrad recently was seen on YouTube. The interview is compelling and motivates me to lay out an argument I have been building. His Holiness, the Patriarch mentions that even chickens will attack those who get too close to their offspring. Yet humans, some humans, kill their…

A particularly wretched bum, in his 30s or 40s, rail-thin from drug use, teeth rotting but spry, shakes down two frail and elderly women on their way to a local Roman Catholic church. These are grand ladies, the sort you’d wish would ask you to carry their groceries; the sort…