Transhumanism and the Abolition of the Human Person

In its broadest sense, transhumanism is the view that humanity’s problems can and should be solved through science and technology.[1] Humanity’s chief problems, on this view, derive from our biological, […]

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Thorin and Bilbo: Image Bearers

Literary characters such as those found in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit often reflects what is best in human nature or what Christians refer to as the divine stamp or imago […]

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Deepest Wonder, Remarkable Beauty: Sonnets in Praise of Life and the Imago Dei

We have come to a time when our culture craves autonomy – to an extreme. Not only are we divided from our neighbors, but we have also severed one of […]

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Gender and the Imago Dei: Together We Reflect the Image of God

In his Ransom Trilogy, C.S. Lewis ironically harnesses the futuristic genre of science fiction to retrieve something very old: what it means to be human. Lewis had warned, in his […]

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Do You Long for Having Your Heart Interlinked?: The Imago Dei and Our Need for Relationships in the Blade Runner Universe

Blade Runner (BR) and Blade Runner 2049 (BR2049) portray dystopian societies that both challenge Christian morals and pose questions to the Christian about essential aspects of humanity. The films present […]

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Matrix of Meaning: Five Theses on Christianity and Culture

The question of the proper relationship of the church to human culture cannot be avoided. Human beings are creative because they are made in the image of the Creator. (We […]

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A Silent Genocide: Disability and the Ongoing Consequences of Social Darwinism

Disability is a term that is difficult to define, but much like G.K. Chesterton said of the term eugenics, “I know that it means very different things to different people; […]

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My Favorite Things

Ash fell like snow on the black walnut tree across the street. Diana peered at it through the kitchen window, but swirling smoke obscured her view. She imagined the ash […]

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Stained-glass Man

I   Once upon a time, there was a Stained-glass Man Who held a glass world in the palm of his hand. Day in and day out, the Man caught […]

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Introducing Worth Reading

When C.S. Lewis was asked in 1944 to write the preface for a new edition of St. Athanasius’ foundational 4th-century book On the Incarnation, Lewis felt it was important to […]

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