Reading the Zeitgeist
Understand what’s really happening in culture—and what it means for you—through insights rooted in science, philosophy, and theology from Paul Anleitner.
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The Thousand-Generation Test of Your Story (opens the original)
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Stuck in the Rebel Story (opens the original)
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Breaking the Spell of the Waste Land (opens the original)
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Malcolm Guite has given us one of the best books of the year in Galahad and the Grail. It’s not just entertaining stories about knights and quests. He has pointed us to the elixir that can save civilization and redeem our world.<img alt="" class="sizin
A Pro-Testosterone Christianity? (opens the original)
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Avengers Looks like AI, and That’s a Good Thing. (opens the original)
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New trailers for another installation in Marvel’s Avengers franchise have hit the internet, producing among even the most diehard of Marvel movie fans questions about how much ever-increasing computer technology is helping or harming these stories.We are now decades removed from the earliest big-screen attempts at telling comic book stories, which—due to technological limitations— forced the use of CGI to be constrained to a minimum or be doomed to end up looking like Spy Kids.<a class="image-li
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