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Delivering the Commonwealth

Walking Faster Than We Can Talk

How a simple premise can create a science fiction world

May 2

Walking Faster Than We Can Talk

May 2

Published in
Delivering the Commonwealth

Delivering the Commonwealth | 2 Makindi | iThanga Elide

A sample chapter from the forthcoming novel Delivering the Commonwealth: Master Gunnery Sergeant Benjamin Makindi faces the alien invaders.

Apr 26

Delivering the Commonwealth | 2 Makindi | iThanga Elide

Apr 26

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Delivering the Commonwealth

Delivering the Commonwealth | Prolog

A sample chapter from the forthcoming novel Delivering the Commonwealth: the prolog and alien invasion.

Apr 26

Delivering the Commonwealth | Prolog

Apr 26

Padding

Everyone does it.

Jan 17

Padding

Jan 17

A Sci-fi Story by Stages

For the last sixteen years, I have been writing a science fiction novel. I’ve started at least half a dozen such efforts over the years…

Dec 10, 2023

A Sci-fi Story by Stages

Dec 10, 2023

How to Foil the AI Uprising

Turns out they suck at jokes and crosswords

Jul 21, 2023

How to Foil the AI Uprising

Jul 21, 2023

The Good News according to Mark — Some, uh, Theologica

Nearly twenty-two years ago, I set out on what I thought would be a fun intellectual exercise: translate the Gospel of Mark into a new…

Mar 18, 2023

The Good News according to Mark — Some, uh, Theologica

Mar 18, 2023

The Shitty Theology Along I-95 — Some, uh, Theologica

There are a lot of religious-themed billboards along I-95 in the south—and they’re all terrible.

Mar 10, 2023

The Shitty Theology Along I-95 — Some, uh, Theologica

Mar 10, 2023

On Christian Agnosticism

I’m going to be honest about what my true religious tradition that embraces faithful doubt is, then I suppose “Christian Agnostic” will do.

Oct 28, 2022

On Christian Agnosticism

Oct 28, 2022

This article suffers from Christopher Hitchens Syndrome: the conflation of religion with God.

It's amazing how many of these articles I read as a Christian agreeing with everything up until the last proposition. All of them take a…

Sep 27, 2022

Sep 27, 2022

Mark Schaefer

Mark Schaefer

Writer, lawyer, amateur linguist, theologian, and Red Sox fan. Upstate NY transplant in DC. Author of “The Certainty of Uncertainty.”

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