Caleb Strom
Contributor
February 28, 2025
Star Trek, the Fermi Paradox, and the Potential of Progressive Religion
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is famous for his optimistic vision of a future classless, post-scarcity socialist utopia of space explorers. He is also famous for having a critical attitude toward religion. Whenever religion is brought up in the part of Star Trek directed by him, it is usually to expose it as a false religion being propped up by a
August 29, 2024
Can a Degrowth Economy, Technology, and Outer Space “Religion” Co-Exist?
On October 10, 2024, the Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch. Europa Clipper is a spacecraft designed to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa, a body suspected to have a habitable liquid water ocean beneath its icy surface.
May 24, 2024
Science Communication, Wonder, and Techno-Solidarity
When the opportunity to view the “Great North American Eclipse” came this past April, I organized a trip with several student organizations at my university to travel into the path of totality. All the people at the event, regardless of their profession, political views, or religious background, were united in wonder as we watched the
February 22, 2024
Dune, Technogaianism, SolarPunk, and the Socio-Ecological Messiah
I have been reading through the classic science fiction of the 20th century, and I am currently on Frank Herbert’s Dune world. Herbert wrote six books in the series and his son co-authored seventeen more.
July 13, 2023
Do Christian Mystics Offer Guidance for Living Off Planet?
Caleb Strom asks what an ethical human expansion into the cosmos could look like and whether Christian mystics already know how to achieve it.
May 15, 2023
Will Technology Destroy Humans or Liberate Them?
Since the beginning of the human genus about 2.5 million years ago, we have used tools to extend the control of nature beyond our physical bodies. I cannot speak for other religious traditions, but our technological nature has long been considered to reflect the nature of God as creator in the Christian tradition.
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