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The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Metanoia and the Experience of Time: Beyond Repentance and the Practice of Change in Mark’s Gospel

This brief essay revisits metanoia in Mark’s Gospel as a radical change in our experience of time. This poetic reflection reframes one of Jesus’ first words — often mistranslated as ‘repent’ — as an invitation to loosen expectation and inhabit a time of possibilities.

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A Crisis of Purpose: Panurgy in Michel Serres’ L’Incandescent

Michel Serres names our moment a crisis of purpose rather than meaning. In L’Incandescent, he calls it panurgy: the human power to act at the scale of the world itself. As computation accelerates and intelligence becomes a wager, fate gives way to responsibility—and purpose outruns its bearings.

Energy and Epiphany in the Later Works of Michel Serres

A brief reflection on Michel Serres’ understanding of our ongoing power to expand our understanding and harnessing of energy to overcome fate and destiny. He re-reads the experience of religion in this context.

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