If we knew our existence would span millennia, would we be able to cherish each day or try as hard as we do now to leave something behind? Would voices from history still offer urgent advice…

In 1974, long before virtual reality (VR) was even a “twinkle in the eye” of most technology researchers, philosopher Robert Nozick introduced a thought experiment called the Experience Machine to illustrate the inadequacy of the philosophy of experiential hedonism.

By: Paul M. Guild – worldviewbulletin.substack.com – 2022 When it comes to developing a rich theology of beauty, it is helpful to distinguish, as Junius Johnson does, between Beauty itself, beautiful things, and the experience of beauty. When it comes to Beauty itself, the referent is God: God is beautiful. Creaturely beings and creaturely states of affairs are beautiful things;...

So what kind of a story can we tell to explain how the loving God of Christianity might allow the degree of suffering and evil that we see in this world? The details vary, but most Christians who offer a defense agree that human freedom must feature heavily in any such story—that is, most defenses are versions of the free...