For those struggling to understand transhumanism, it may be best to start at the finish. By and large, transhumanists’ ultimate goal is to reach what’s called singularity: a point at which man achieves immortality
Jason Mast
Traditional Christianity is going down in a fiery ball of turd. At least that’s the metaphor the Rev. John Philip Newell likes to use to describe where the church is heading. “We are in
When swastikas appeared on David Bloom’s predominantly Jewish dorm at Indiana University and someone threw rocks through the Chabad and Hillel houses, many students blamed the school’s small Muslim community. And yet it was Bloom’s
As a young Ph.D. student, Muinuddin Charles Smith was traveling around studying religious communities in the early 1980s when he came across a commune of Sufis. He stopped studying and started meditating. Smith and his
In the hours after a Muslim man massacred 49 people in a gay nightclub, as Donald Trump used the shooting to bolster his argument that Muslims are terrorists, 465 Muslim leaders from numerous organizations across
Southern Gospel musician Yara Allen sang “Woke up this morning with my eyes … .” Wednesday’s Hall of Philosophy crowd finished the lyrics, swaying and clapping: “stayed on freedom.” In 2016, the
Bullets sprayed the party bus as 20-year-old Brionna Boddy stepped onto its steps. She had been with friends at a house party. She wanted to see what the bus looked like. She became one
Looking out upon the sprawling smog-scape of 19th-century London, William Blake decried the “dark, satanic mills” that had replaced the pastoral agricultural landscapes. If anything, he was ahead of his time. The next two
John Pulleyn doesn’t believe in nostalgia. In fact, he said, he’s happier now than he ever was in his youth and it’s all thanks to meditation. Once a self-conscious young man who thought he needed
Thaddeus Skiles is nervous. He starts to speak hurriedly and stirs restlessly on an undersized ladderback chair. A packed room at the United Church of Christ Headquarters stares expectantly. But when he breaks off mid-sentence
Phrakhru Pitak Nanthakhun begged his father to keep the baby monkey clinging to its dead mother. Phrakhru’s father, a hunter in northern Thailand, had shot her and, devastated, Nanthakhun tried to care for the baby.
Freedom is in danger. Modern freedom was a moral accomplishment created through sacrifice and adherence to strong values, Imam Abdulaziz Eddebbarh said, but it may soon crumble as humanity fails to make a second moral
The West has lost God. Not “lost God” in the modern sense that young people are leaving religion, environmentalist Rabbi Ellen Bernstein posited, and certainly not in the “America is being punished for its
Three days before speaking at Chautauqua, Karenna Gore, former vice president Al Gore’s daughter, stood in a Boston courtroom, defending herself from charges of trespassing, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace. Gore has taken a
Bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe didn’t think he would receive much pushback. It was 2004, and in a meeting with top NASA officials, he had said the well-being of the astronauts should be the top priority
After Apollo 11 landed on the moon, while the world observed a moment of silence and before Neil Armstrong stepped on the lunar surface, Buzz Aldrin pulled out a plastic bag, removed wine and a