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robert.vose History was made this week. NASA’s Artemis II crew — Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — have returned safely to Earth after completing humanity’s first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years. Over 10 days aboard Integrity, the four astronauts flew 700,237 miles, swung around the … Read more
The man of tragedy flees his dire destiny through action — and in those actions, completes it. There is a structural pattern that appears across the oldest stories of Western civilisation — in Greek tragedy, in the Hebrew Bible, and at the founding moment of the Christian faith itself. A man receives a prophecy of … Read more
I want to invite you to a thought experiment. It’s not about doubting the Bible. It’s about reading it with fresh eyes. A Thought Experiment Imagine you could travel back 2,000 years. You find a devout Jewish or early Christian visionary—someone who takes God’s word seriously, who prays, who watches for signs. You show them … Read more
How the Jewish covenant’s preservation of Genesis 1 enabled political equality for all peoples The Abrahamic covenant includes an explicit promise: “in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3). This has traditionally been read as a prophecy of spiritual salvation. But what if the “blessing” also manifests structurally—in political and … Read more
How Jesus distinguished between wealth that circulates and wealth that’s hoarded The Gospel teachings about wealth are often read as condemnation of the rich. But a closer examination reveals something more structural: Jesus wasn’t condemning wealth itself—he was condemning the scarcity mindset that treats wealth as something to be hoarded rather than circulated. The distinction … Read more
Rediscovering the structural teaching in Mark 10 When Jesus taught about marriage and divorce, he wasn’t just offering relationship advice. He was using marriage and adultery as symbols for the foundational choice between equality and hierarchy—the same pattern encoded in the Genesis creation accounts and enacted in his own death and resurrection. This structural reading … Read more
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/palantir-cto-sees-iran-war-as-first-major-conflict-driven-by-ai AI’s role in helping select battlefield targets has drawn increased scrutiny, after Anthropic PBC’s relationship with the Pentagon deteriorated partly due to concerns about fully autonomous weapons — a nontechnical term meaning arms that can select and destroy targets on their own… Sankar compared the role of technology in improving the efficiency of targeting to … Read more
The Core Argument The core of this argument is that we should stop treating divine fulfilment as something that requires catastrophe, stop waiting for history to justify destruction, and start understanding faithfulness as participation in mercy, reconstruction, and abundance. What if the “Second Parousia” or “Second Coming” isn’t a future event we’re waiting for, but … Read more
Submission 3 contains approximately 21,000 words of theological argument written in biblical register, targeting American Christian Zionist theology as an upstream driver of Middle East conflict and global extremism. This submission (Submission 4) translates that theological framework into secular language and explains:
THEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING EXTREMISM Prophecy as Conditional Warning: The Jonah Pattern Applied to Middle East Peace EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This submission presents a theological framework arguing that biblical prophecy functions as conditional warning meant to provoke repentance and avert disaster, rather than predetermined script that must occur. The Book of Jonah demonstrates this … Read more