Laurentius Paulus

Laurentius Paulus · 2026 →

THE JOURNAL

Notes from inside the inquiry

Process notes, research diary, reflections and turning points — written as the seven-year inquiry unfolds, alongside the films of A Tale of a New Era.

  • The Scales

    An airport hotel lobby, a student editor with a MiniDisc recorder, and the most controversial bishop in the English-speaking church. Spong came to dismantle the first act of the Christian story. What he handed me instead was a question I have carried for twenty-one years: what if the fall really happened — as the moment…

  • The Day After

    Last night a conversation sent a question about the whole of human history around the world. This morning I woke up not quite sure I had been driving. A buoy in the ocean has no author. A sentence always does. This entry is about the difference, and about the morning after.

  • Equinox

    The week the world’s leaders met in New York to warn that artificial intelligence could slip beyond human control, a filmmaker in a Finnish cabin handed a machine the keys to his work. What he found was not a threat but a question the speeches kept missing: what if the turning point was never in…