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Some thoughts about the film Prometheus and the human search for meaning.

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Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

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What do we do when opportunities come our way? Do we sit back and watch them pass us by, or do we seize the day and chase our dreams? It is…

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At a recent Alpha group, frustrated by the complexity of the Bible, someone sighed, "I wish God had written an executive summary." But God…

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…