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Author: Alisa Ruddell

Alisa Ruddell is an associate editor and staff writer for Christ and Pop Culture. She is a homeschooling mother of four who lives in Charlottesville, VA with her husband Steve. She loves classic literature, reading aloud to her children on the couch, listening to theology podcasts, and watching science fiction movies.
Alisa Ruddell on appetites and existential crisis for Salt and Iron: Seasoned Writing
Philosophy

How Our Intellectual Appetites Make Us Vulnerable to Existential Risks: part three

Our penchant for breaching natural boundaries has produced the astounding technological advances we now enjoy. It has likewise led us …

Posted on December 27, 2022November 25, 2022
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How Our Intellectual Appetites Make Us Vulnerable to Existential Risks: part two

Christians have a long tradition of discussing human appetites—for corporeal things like food, sex, and comfort, as well as for incorporeal things …

Posted on August 16, 2022June 2, 2023
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Philosophy

How Our Intellectual Appetites Make Us Vulnerable to Existential Risks: part one

As a child growing up in the evangelical church of the ‘80s and ‘90s, I heard plenty about the “end times.”

Posted on July 13, 2022June 2, 2023
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From Carl Jung to Jesus Christ: part four

Read part three. Why You Can Thank Medieval Nominalism for Your Modern Neuroses Your problems aren’t just your problems, and they won’t be solved overnight, … Read More ›

Posted on December 21, 2021June 2, 2023
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Philosophy

From Carl Jung to Jesus Christ: part three

Read part two. Of All Evil I Deem You Capable Jung said each of us must possess the utmost possible knowledge of our own wholeness, … Read More ›

Posted on December 7, 2021June 2, 2023
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Philosophy

From Carl Jung to Jesus Christ: part two

Read part one. A Tale of Two Elephants: Metaphors for the Unconscious Because you are a hybrid creature, a mixture of the mortal dust of … Read More ›

Posted on November 30, 2021June 2, 2023
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Philosophy

From Carl Jung to Jesus Christ: part one

Jung believed that dream symbols had the value of parables. He said that dreams do not conceal, but rather teach in the best way they know how — not in words but in images.

Posted on October 29, 2021June 2, 2023
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Safety Not Guaranteed: A Christian’s Coming to Terms with Evolution

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” William James … Read More ›

Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021
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Curiosity, Courage, and Compassion in the Underworld

A few years ago, suffering and death took a sledgehammer to my neat little map of reality.

Posted on June 16, 2020June 11, 2020

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