Spectators for Life (Conf. Book 3)

There is no more condensed symbol of our wayward desire than our heads bowed and buried in the screen of a modern (de)vice, the "ghost machine" of our time. Jesus once asked two disciples of John the…

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The Supreme Superstition (Conf. Book 2)

It is well known that Augustine offers not one, but two motives for stealing the pears in his youth. He did it, he says firstly, simply for love of the act itself. What fruit did I ever reap from…

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