Ed Simon
Executive Director/Editor-in-Chief, Belt Magazine, Washington, DC
Ed Simon is the executive director of Belt Media Collaborative and the editor-in-chief for Belt Magazine; a contributing editor for the History News Network; and a staff writer at the literary site The Millions. His books include the anthology The God Beat: What Journalism Says about Faith and Why It Matters (2021), co-edited with Costica Bradatan; Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature (2022); and Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology (2022). He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Philosophy of religion
How to pray to a dead God
The modern world is disenchanted. God remains dead. But our need for transcendence lives on. How should we fulfil it?
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Machine in the ghost
Can a robot pray? Does an AI have a soul? Advances in automata raise theological debates that will shape the secular world
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Meaning and the good life
What Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy can offer in the Anthropocene
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Stories and literature
How Erasmus Darwin’s poetry prophesied evolutionary theory
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Stories and literature
My odious handiwork: Frankenstein is about art, not science
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History of science
‘Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb’: the science of Paradise Lost
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Race and ethnicity
How ‘white people’ were invented by a playwright in 1613
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Stories and literature
Why Sasquatch and other crypto-beasts haunt our imaginations
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