principalities, powers, and the technical boy
I have a suspicion that my earlier posts on idolatry — one and two — bear a significant relation to the...
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Building 5: cunning works
Let us reflect further on the call and assignment of Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur in Exodus 31: We are told that he...
building 4: creative fidelity
In Exodus 31 there’s a curious passage in which the Lord describes to Moses the artist, or artisan, or craftsman,...
building 3: practices of making
In reflecting further on the story of how and why Solomon built the Temple, I want to cite Gabriel Josipovici again,...
building 2
The reign of King David of Israel was highly successful, but also ceaselessly beset by conflicts. Whenever he had a...
building
A book that I have returned to often over the years is Gabriel Josipovici’s The Book of God. Josipovici is an...
against tweetstorms
A few weeks ago I took to Twitter to unleash a tweetstorm against tweetstorms. (I was in an ironic mood. Also, if...
a technological tale for Reformation Day
What I have been calling the technological history of modernity is in part a story about the power of recognizing how...
the future of the codex Bible
Catching up on a topic dear to my heart: here’s a fine essay in Comment by J. Mark Bertrand on printed and digital...
books on The Good Book
The Wall Street Journal commissioned this review but in the end didn’t find space for it. Which is cool,...