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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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A new paganism | Aeon
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Philosophy of religion

A new paganism

Now is the time to revitalise our relationship with nature and immerse ourselves in the little wonders of the universe

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How to pray to a dead God | Aeon
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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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Machine in the ghost | Aeon
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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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What Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy can offer in the Anthropocene | Aeon
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Meaning and the good life

What Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy can offer in the Anthropocene

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How Erasmus Darwin’s poetry prophesied evolutionary theory | Aeon
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Stories and literature

How Erasmus Darwin’s poetry prophesied evolutionary theory

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My odious handiwork: Frankenstein is about art, not science | Aeon
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Stories and literature

My odious handiwork: Frankenstein is about art, not science

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‘Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb’: the science of Paradise Lost | Aeon
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History of science

‘Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb’: the science of Paradise Lost

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How ‘white people’ were invented by a playwright in 1613 | Aeon
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Race and ethnicity

How ‘white people’ were invented by a playwright in 1613

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Why Sasquatch and other crypto-beasts haunt our imaginations | Aeon
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Stories and literature

Why Sasquatch and other crypto-beasts haunt our imaginations

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