Meet the future: Eugene Goostman. He's a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy; his father is a gynecologist and he owns a gerbil. He's also not a real boy, but a computer program. A chatbot, to be precise.But this assemblage of hopped up bits and bytes managed to fool some real humans into believing he was one of us...
In this series of ongoing postings, Fred Power, SJ, offers a guide to the books of the Bible. True Scriptural reading is the careful, intelligent and prayerful use of the Bible by a believer. Today's posting looks at The Acts of the Apostles....
This posting by Brian Strassburger, SJ, - originally pubiished in The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org)- examines the ways Christ has been depicted in art through the centuries....
Every now and then, the issue of keeping whales in captivity crops up at the Aquarium. Now is one of those times. One of Vancouver's top tourist attractions, the Aquarium is undergoing a $100 million expansion, and when it's finished in 2016, the plan is for belugas to be the centrepiece of the brave new facility....
This is the first of a two part posting examining a movement which often occurs in our spiritual life, the movement from our minds wandering to our minds focused in meditation, and from meditation to our minds lost in contemplation, and from contemplation to compassion for the world.....
Marian Beck looks at the story of the Nativity as it might be described by the donkey that carried Mary on the journey to Bethlehem....
As this new year begins, Pope Francis asks us to pray "That sincere dialogue among men and women of different faiths may produce the fruits of peace and justice."...
The Feast of the Epiphany marks the end of the twelve days of Christmas. Today's posting - part prose,part poetry, part music - offers a reflection on this time....
As we begin a new year, Paul Baker, SJ takes us back some seventy years and offers memories of 1945....
