We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these ….

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know..

I know well what faith really means to people in their daily lives, as there are many people in my family whose lives are permeated by their faith: i….

I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The ongoing paradox ….

I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by it later in life. I still hav….

Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is al….

Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to interface with ….

All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and women, great and not-so of every co….

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together..

One of the great things about the Bible, one of the things I think keeps people coming back to it, is that it's nothing if not perpetually topical. Y….

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction ….

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fa….

I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I don't understand why s….

Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going to experien….

Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fasc….

I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple yea….

Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, i….

And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, ….

People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if I let myself go on ….

On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic….

I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon related to technology and rapid di….