What No Eye Has Seen or Screen Has Shown

Dear Living Dark reader,

Here on the first day of the new year, it occurs to me that some words of Jesus and Paul, drawn from Isaiah, could stand an update for our current American age of total saturation by and utter obsession with media, money, consumerism, entertainment, jobs, politics, drugs, education, and religion. Of course the same basic situation also obtains elsewhere in many nations and cultures around the globe. But it’s America that I know the best.

In the Gospel of Thomas 17, Jesus s...