Scott Robinson
Splitsville
In the days before megachurches like Southeast Christian were a thing, there was a phenomenon that persists today but was more frequent...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 9, 20205 min read
Christian Cognitive Clusters
Part of my day job is parsing the human brain, as it is specifically applied to social thinking, group dynamics and communication. To...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 8, 20205 min read
The Octant Androids
I recently finished a book, AI in Sci-Fi: Fictional Artificial Minds and the Real World Awaiting Them, in which I survey the many AIs and...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 7, 20204 min read
Published!
I shared earlier that my mom had cultivated in me an interest in creative self-investment. Little did I know at the time just now rapidly...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 6, 20203 min read
Barry, Billy, and Elton
My parents had eased up on the whole rock music thing, to the point where by my junior year of high school it was a distant memory. I had...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 5, 20203 min read
The Closet Scientist
It was largely Star Trek that focused my mind on science and reason, starting around 1972 – but it was the World Book Encyclopedia that...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 5, 20203 min read
WLS Chicago
The Boys Club near Water Street and George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” were a start, music-wise; but it was when we moved out of the town...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 4, 20205 min read
The Neighborhood
Here’s one of the happiest pieces of the past for me. When we lived in Lexington, we were nestled in a quiet, very peaceful post-war...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 1, 20204 min read
Woman Watching
Men notice women. Women notice men. We’re wired to notice the opposite sex, and to experience attraction when we do. We couldn’t shut it...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 30, 20205 min read
Jesus Woodstock
(Photo courtesy of Bill Roberts) Back to the summer of 1971. For reasons I was never clear on, I was on my first just-me-and-Dad trip...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 30, 20205 min read
All Grown-Ass Men Love Batman
“There are 492 billionaires in the United States, and not one of those losers has decided to become Batman.” ~Pinterest meme Since I was...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 29, 20206 min read
ReachOut House
My dad’s church camp dean thing was only one expression of his propensity for youth ministry. Still just early thirtysomething himself,...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 27, 20205 min read
The Magic Man
It’s the summer of 1971. We now live in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in a very old house on Water Street, built almost a century earlier. Up...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 20204 min read
My Actual Church
My ultimate fate was decided on the night of October 27, 1967. How do I remember that so precisely? It’s right there in Wikipedia,...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 20206 min read
Rapture Terror
The idea of the “End Times”, that era of human history either directly before or directly after the Second Coming of Christ (depending on...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 202010 min read
Church Camp
When you spend as much time in church as families like ours did – which is to say, every moment of every day you weren’t at home or in...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 18, 20202 min read
Under the Sheets
When I was a kid, growing up immersed in Midwestern Fundamentalism, we had to be pretty innovative in seeking out fun. We spent an...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 14, 20205 min read
Star Wars, Star Trek, and Macroeconomic Theory
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel, in a conversation with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, weighed in on that most...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 14, 20208 min read
The 13th Album
A favorite game of Beatles fans has always been to speculate about what would have happened had the band gotten back together. A more...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 12, 20203 min read
The Smell of the Lord
So I’m walking into a Baptist church in the Midwest for a wedding, and I hold the door for the maid of honor. As I step inside, I’m hit...
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