Dr. Brian Toews

Dr. Brian Toews has a BA from UCLA in Linguistics, a ThM from Talbot School of Theology (Biola Univ.), and PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA. He has worked at Cairn University sinc

Ex Machina and Technological Somnambulism

Nov 23, 2015 5 min read Film & Television

Numerous science fiction films tell the story of artificial intelligences rebelling against their human creators. Recently, in Marvel’s Age of Ultron, Tony Stark accidentally creates Ultron, an embodied AI bent on creating

<i>The Leftovers</i> and Hebrew Wisdom Literature

May 1, 2015 6 min read Film & Television

Why do bad things happen? How do we deal with calamity? Why is life so uncertain? How does one live in the face of unexpected loss? There are many ways that human beings