Can robots be persons? May 25th, 2017 It seems to have been World Robotics and AI (Artificial Intelligence) Week last week. There was ... On Culture, Personhood, Theos, Things that matter
On Not Having Your Cake, but Eating It March 28th, 2017 There’s something weird going on out there in liberal-land. It’s causing a clash of individualisms that ... In the News, On Culture, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter, ThinkTheology
Making a Song and Dance About Assisted Suicide January 23rd, 2017 Picture the scene: a young couple are walking hand-in-hand across the stage. The girl’s red dress ... Arts, Between the Lines, On Culture, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter
“I have seen the worst of humanity” August 17th, 2016 This story, in the iPaper today, is awful. A mother who watched on helplessly as onlookers told ... Between the Lines, On Culture, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter
“Famous person is human – Shock” December 21st, 2015 Last Monday the Daily Mail ran a 'news' story showing the Duchess of Cambridge looking weary as ... In the News, On Culture, On Faith, On Life, Personhood, ThinkTheology
Sickening logic March 27th, 2015 I've just read a news report of a sickening crime: Days ago, Lane committed a horrific ... In the News, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter
A Time to Die June 9th, 2014 D-Day landings, 800 children in an unmarked grave, and a new euthanasia law in Canada. Three news stories in the last week which reveal our conflicting attitudes to death and the value of life. In the News, On Culture, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter
Bodies Matter June 27th, 2013 I feel like Hercule Poirot. Not in the sense that everywhere I go I leave a ... Between the Lines, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter
We are not solitary self-defining intellectual identities who form temporary alliances with each other for short-term ...
Doing What’s Right, Right April 25th, 2013 The following post first appeared on ThinkTheology, and follows on from a couple of other posts there, ... Books, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter, ThinkTheology
Bodies of Evidence December 20th, 2012 Here's another post I wrote recently for ThinkTheology but forgot to share with you. Sorry! ----------------- At the ... Body or Soul?, Personhood, Things that matter, ThinkTheology
I’m not in denial! September 22nd, 2012 In 50 days' time, I will turn 40. I'm not really bothered by it, but that's partly ... On the Lines, Personhood