SACRED IDEAS · ESSAYS & TALKS
Ideas in public.
Essays, lectures and conversations extending the books into questions of religion after certainty, consciousness, moral life, technology and what remains sacred within a material understanding of reality.
FIRST ESSAY · RELIGION AFTER CERTAINTY
Religion Was Humanity’s Most Successful Failure
Maybe religion got the universe wrong and still got something important right. The harder question is what religion was trying to protect—and how we might carry what is worth keeping without pretending certainty.
PUBLISHED ESSAY · OCTOBER 2026
What Remains When Belief Disappears?
PUBLISHED ESSAY · OCTOBER 2026
When AI Engineers and Theologians Start Talking to Each Other
DEVELOPING INQUIRY · AI & SOCIETY
Consciousness, authority and human responsibility
AI & Society follows the distinctions among capability, agency, consciousness and authority—and what happens when increasingly capable systems begin to shape decisions human beings remain responsible for.
New work will appear here when it is ready: not as filler, but as a continuing public argument.