“What does it mean to be human in a world where machines can mimic the deepest of human bonds?”, asks Kevin Jackson, author of The Human and the Machine: AI Sexbots and the Boundaries of Love and Dignity in the Workplace published in the March 27, 2025 online issue of Public Discourse. Is it moral […]

Why do you reject my soul, Lord, and hide your face from me? I have been mortally afflicted since youth; I have borne your terrors and I am made numb. Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me. (Ps 88:15-17)As the psalmist makes clear, trauma–real trauma–wounds our psyche, our body and our […]