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Always Be Ready: Evil Has an Address
If you carry a weapon, always be prepared to use it! Last week in Bend, Oregon, a 16-year-old forced his way through a deterrent door at Silver Rail Elementary and murdered three children, ages 5, 7, and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher. A child in a wheelchair was shot in the face. Federal investigators are…
Elliot Ackerman’s Leviathan, Bill Gates’s billion-death warning, and the regulatory vacuum at the frontier of artificial intelligence
This Grok-generated image captures the concept through a colossal AI figure, a dark, sorcerer-like entity, using glowing data chains to pull modern humanity back into a torch-lit, plague-haunted medieval landscape of crumbling castles and burning knowledge. The Leviathan Problem: Can Washington Govern a Technology It Barely Understands? ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: The Summer the Machines…
Some people just can’t let go of Oak Island
And when they post on Facebook, the pesky details don’t seem to matter. THE FAMILY THAT GAVE OAK ISLAND EVERYTHING In 1965, Dan Blankenship read a magazine article about a mysterious Money Pit on a little island in Nova Scotia. Most men would have turned the page. Dan packed up his family, left Florida behind,…
“Get Your Own Dust”: Why Only God Can Breathe Life into Man
You Can Code a Chatbot, But You Can’t Code a Soul Get Your Own Dust For decades, the materialist crowd told us we’re nothing more than leftover stardust, a lucky accident cooked up over billions of years by blind chemistry and natural selection. Now fast-forward to 2021. Today’s materialists, the folks leading the AI charge,…
Pass the Salt, If You Can Hear Me: How Background Music Stole the Dinner Table
The Tyranny of the Unasked-For Song A Christian review of John Cassara’s “Loudcasting: The Tyranny of Unwelcome Music,” and a plea for the recovery of quiet ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: The Essay We Should Have Written Somewhere this evening, a family is trying to say grace over a restaurant meal while a speaker mounted ten…
The Gospel According to Peter Thiel: A Billionaire’s Antichrist Meets the Bible
PHOTO: Google Gemini imagines an interesting interpretation of this quote by Michael Christensen at Religion News Service: “This raises the unsettling question: Is Thiel exposing the Antichrist, or announcing it?” One might be tempted to ask, “Where is Thiel getting his information?” When a Billionaire Reads the Apocalypse: Peter Thiel, the Antichrist, and the Book…
Are You Good Enough to Go to Heaven? The Question Everyone Answers Wrong
If you landed on this page with your phone and you’d like to view it later on your computer, use this URL: TinyURL.com/I-Am-Good-Enough – Why goodness has never been heaven’s entrance requirement, and what God offers in its place ❧ ✦ ❧ The Question Beneath Every Other Question Listen closely at almost any funeral, and…
No Ghost in the Machine: A Christian and Secular Rebuttal to “Conscious AI”
Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not, and Will Never Be, Conscious ❧ ✦ ❧ The Clockwork and the Clock On October 19, 2026, Religion Unplugged published an analysis by John Mac Ghlionn under a title built to stop the scroll: “AI Might Be Conscious. If So, God Help Us.” The piece closes with a genuinely memorable…
Beyond the Attack Ads: What 23 Years of Andy Biggs’s Record Actually Show
An investigation of the record behind the rhetoric, and the case for a change on the Ninth Floor ❧ ✦ ❧ In 2016, Andy Biggs won his first congressional primary by 27 votes, a margin confirmed only after an automatic recount. A decade later, the Gilbert Republican is his party’s nominee for governor, and the…
Pastor Joey Sampaga: Stewards of the Sovereign King, Luke19:11-27
Here is the full transcript [Click HERE to close] – Alright, so last week we looked at one of the pretty magnificent display of the sovereign grace of of God. And this was a salvation of Zacchaeus. So I remember him being short in stature. He had climbed the tree. Now Jesus, he was passing through Jericho,…