history
In June of 1630, the Arbella came to anchor in Salem Harbor, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was born. Arriving ten years after the settlers of Plymouth Plantation, this first venture of the Massachusetts Bay Company was led by a 41-year-old lawyer named John Winthrop. Just before making landfall, Winthrop
quote
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. — Marcus Aurelius
religion and philosophy
What follows is an essay by Werner Erhard. As a believing Christian, I am not convinced that this take is entirely aligned with my sense of truth, but it still feels like a useful meditation on our relationship with God as the ultimate what's so. "What’s
technology
For the past month or so, I have been obsessed with finding some way to respond to the corporate social media purge of traditional, mainstream ideas and attitudes. The speed and totality with which Silicon Valley tech-oligarchs eradicated online expressions of conservative and centrist wrong-think convinced me that we had
religion and philosophy
Democrats think Republicans are hate-filled, racist, xenophobic nazis. They want to control everyone's life, and force them to conform to the dictates of a theocratic, patriarchal prison state. Think this is an over-statement? Spend twenty minutes watching CNN, another twenty minutes on Twitter and yet another twenty minutes
religion and philosophy
"God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play