Shadowlands Dispatch
Shadowlands Dispatch, Melissa Cain Travis, Rebekah Valerius, Megan RialsShadowlands Dispatch is a magazine dedicated to cultural apologetics. Our team: Lanie Anderson, MDiv; Julie Miller, PhD; Melissa Travis, PhD; and Rebekah Valerius, MA
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 119 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Our Divine Creative Calling: Withstanding Generative AI by Resurrecting Human Creativity
In his 2025 best-selling book Against the Machine, Paul Kingsnorth predicts “that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”1 Such an imminent division...
G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" Slow Read
Our final meeting of the Orthodoxy Slow Read will be this coming Saturday, May 23 @ 10am CST.
This has been such a delightful journey. I don’t know about you, but this masterpiece has always been balm for my soul, and reading it with a gro...
Doubt and Disconfirmation Bias
“Field Notes from the Shadowlands” is a monthly column written by the editors at Shadowlands Dispatch. This month, Rebekah Valerius writes about doubters’ tendency to engage in a phenomenon called disconfirmation bias and offers some ways t...
May Book Discussion: Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five appears on most “100 Best Books of All Time” lists, and because philosophical speculative fiction is totally my jam, I can’t wait to discuss it with my fellow Shadowlands pilgrims! Mark your calendar. The...
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Shadowlands Dispatch is a magazine dedicated to cultural apologetics. Co-editors: Lanie Anderson, MDiv; Julie Miller, PhD; Melissa Travis, PhD; and Rebekah Valerius, MA
Assistant Professor at HCU. Co-author of The Reconstruction Project: Recovering Truth and Rebuilding Faith (2026); author of Thinking God's Thoughts (2022) and Science and the Mind of the Maker (2018). Fellow at Discovery Institute.
Writer and Science Educator | BS Biochemistry, MA Apologetics
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