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Chesterton in Silicon Valley – The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence

By Karl Schmude

Karl Schmude explores Chesterton’s possible reactions to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the light of his insights into the early technology of the machine age, combined with the paradoxes...

Flannery O’Connor – Intellectual Influences on Literary Art

By Gary Furnell

Gary Furnell examines the intellectual influences that shaped the literary art of the American Catholic novelist and short-story writer, Flannery O’Connor.

The Forgotten Sin of Usury

By Gary Furnell

Garrick Small looks at the historical and economic factors that changed the moral evaluation of usury in the Christian West.

Unravelling the Riddle of Job

By Anthony Charles Smith

Anthony Charles Smith draws on a work of Chesterton’s to unravel “the riddle of Job”, and shed light on the spiritual mystery and meaning of suffering.

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