The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic — a devastating epidemic that killed up to 100 million people, or 5% of the
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Discipleship, scholarship, and faith
The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic — a devastating epidemic that killed up to 100 million people, or 5% of the
Continue readingThe Gospel of Jesus Christ does not protect us from pain and sorrow. Rather, it helps us turn them into sanctifying experiences.
Continue readingMoralism assumes that our primary duty in life is to become good people, which is usually taken to mean we
Continue readingThe borders of science fiction (as a genre) have not always tracked the distinction we have made in this series.
Continue readingFew things highlight the distinction between science fiction and fantasy better than science fantasy. Science fantasy comes in multiple forms,
Continue readingMost viewers distinguish between science fiction and fantasy based on aesthetic alone — futuristic settings, spaceships, and high technology have
Continue readingMany people think of agency as a mostly just a matter of moral autonomy; that is, because the individual self
Continue readingAgency as rational deliberation treats agency as the process by which we weigh two alternatives and study out the consequences
Continue readingThere are two competing cultural narratives that frame the stories we find in modern entertainment. The culturally ascendant narrative is
Continue readingThe central distinction explored in this series — science fiction as inhabiting a naturalistic universe, and fantasy as inhabiting a
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