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On the “Spiritual Lust” of Lewis (opens the original)
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Anyone who knows me will know how much I love C.S. Lewis. This was not a given, given the church in which I grew up. I remember older men in the church, whom I deeply respected, questioning whether C.S. Lewis was really a Christian at all. After all, he married a divorced woman. He also didn’t seem to some to be deeply committed enough to the doctrine of sola Scriptura. And really, should I be reading fiction at all, especially fantasy? After all, everything we need is in the Scriptures. And whe
A WorldWeaver Story: The Journey Home (opens the original)
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As I set out, as Jack, on an adventure in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, I neither aimed for nor foresaw the romance that ensued — although, given my initial encounter with a brave and beautiful goat-herdess, I should perhaps not have been surprised by it. Jack is, of course, me and not-me — a bit more hasty in love (though that’s also a natural side-effect of the story’s necessary time-compression) and definitely much more trusting of Hermes. What was wholly unanticipated — like a rock falling into wate
Sandbox Games, Riches, and Poverty as Pointers to Meaning (opens the original)
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What remains meaningful when you have everything? Or nothing?I had an interesting experience the other day as I was play-testing my WorldWeaver.online app. “Play-testing” perhaps makes what I was doing sound more like work than it is: I enjoy the game I’m building, so it’s probably more “playing” than “play-testing”, if I’m honest. And WorldWeaver is perhaps not really a “sandbox” game. But, having played through so many stories during this testing phase of the game, and knowing by now the myria
It's the End of the World of Code as We Know It (opens the original)
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I’m going to do something a little bit different for this “final” World of Code podcast. Interspersed with the cleaned-up transcript below, I’m going to add some expanded thoughts and annotations using the “callout” block, like this:I’ll start by noting that I really do not feel that I’ve achieved what I set out to achieve with the World of Code podcast. My hope, at this point, is mainly that it has at least achieved some small part of what I was hoping for, and, in particular, I hope that those
What Has Happened to the World of Code? (opens the original)
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It’s been a month since I last posted to Substack, and seven months since I last posted a video-episode of the World of Code podcast. A lot has happened in the real-world “world of code”, as well as in my own life, some of which I have <a h
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