An Autobiographical Account of Technology
How I Got to Talking About Artificial Intelligence
June 16, 2023
How I Got to Talking About Artificial Intelligence
by Fr. Edlefsen
My left hand and my right brain were my original stock-in-trade. Until the mid-1980s, memories and impressions were the prime subjects of my handwriting. I still...Read more
The Manhood of Robbie Binter
Short Story by Fr. Edlefsen
April 28, 2023
The Manhood of Robbie Binter A short story by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
Matthias Robert Binter, known as Robbie, turned fourteen on May 1, 1968. That same day, after Fr. D’Amour’s Wednesday morning Mass at St. Luke’s, Robbie’s little...Read more
Popeyes and Port Comedy from a Fallen World
By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
April 11, 2023
My sister was a child and I a teenager when we went with mom, dad and my grandmother (on dad’s side) to the zoo in Columbus, Ohio. I recall little of the outing, save for laughing at the monkeys...Read more
The Return
by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
March 3, 2023
From clear skies, Johnny stared blankly downward to the California coastline, watching whitecaps crash into gray cliffs and aridly green landscapes, from the window of the World Airways DC-8 eastbound to Travis Air Force Base. That was the summer...Read more
The Crisis of Faith
A Short Story By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
January 9, 2023
Seth McMinn had over a dozen bumper stickers on the transom of his 2003 Honda, Element, which he street parked in front of an adobe house in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. He rented a room there from Naomi, a flannel...Read more
