Essays from the Overflow

First Person AI

An exploration of consciousness

Jun 24 •

Why Are You Picking on the Secular Left?

…and Other FAQs About My New Book

Jun 16 •

Going on All the Rides

Picky eating vs. living with gusto

May 5 •

Hot, Messy, Modern Problems? Unsexy, Old-Fashioned Solutions

A Case for Coming Home

Apr 21 •

The Perpetual Process of Coming Out As Ourselves

“The more personal, the more universal.” When I was learning to write sermons twenty years ago, that’s what they told me.

Mar 31 •

The Three Infectious Diseases of the Internet

Disembodiment, Disconnection, and Dislocation

Mar 10 •

What To Do With a Rosary

An excerpt from "The Secret Despair of the Secular Left"

Feb 24 •

Miracles in the Public Record

Tuff and Sully Broke the Rules and So Can We

Feb 16 •

My Most Embarrassing Belief

Well-educated citizens of modern society are supposed to accept certain facts as just true.

Feb 10 •

Unrealized Loss

Economists have a term for the loss incurred when an investment has decreased in value but hasn’t yet been sold: it’s an “unrealized loss.” It’s only…

Feb 3 •

Religion and Environment: Two Words to Delete

Jan 27 •

Religion and Environment: Two Words to Delete

Jan 20 •

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