The approach to Easter this year comes at a time of great upheaval and instability, in the Middle East and across the world. There’s nothing new there, perhaps: amid the ongoing post-Covid global permacrisis, with new ‘wars and rumours of wars’ seeming to spring up on a near-monthly basis, each Read more
It needs to be more widely known that the “history of the conflict between religion and science” essentially originates in one book of that title of 1875, with encouragement from a History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom in 1897. War between science and religion is “the Read more
I have been reading and studying Studies in Words by C. S. Lewis since 1991. Over time, it has become a personal classic, not a book I merely consult, but one I return to as language, culture, and education continue to change around us. Lewis was not proposing a theory Read more
“You are correct: something is seriously wrong.” This manifesto is an urgent call to arms about the capacity of human attention and what is threatening it today.
I wrote a while ago about a biblical way to construe AI. It’s an analogy, and it goes like this. Just as God made humans to be his image in the world and exercise God’s loving power on his behalf, so we invent tools to take our own God-bearing image Read more
At a fresh reading, the account of the Magi visiting the Christ child in Matthew’s Gospel seems bizarre. Wise men from a faraway land observe such a significant star that they set out for Jerusalem with gifts for a prince. Urged on to Bethlehem by a quote from prophecy (Micah Read more
If you read the passages about wisdom in the Bible as I do, you probably have a sense of a vibrant, intriguing personality whose presence is to be found in all kinds of exciting places. She was there rejoicing at the Creator’s side as he made the Earth, unfurled the Read more
A guest post by Steve Bishop Twenty-five years after the death of Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921), his compatriot Arie B. W. M. Kok lamented that “Bavinck’s person and work no longer receives the appreciation he deserves from our current generation.” But in recent decades this tide has turned, and Read more
What is artificial intelligence? The rapid spread of ChatGPT and its competitors is accompanied by a widespread view that AI is an artificial form of intelligence. This phrase might seem innocuous, but I believe it’s both misguided and dangerous. We commonly take intelligence as an indicator of sentience, because until Read more
The revolution being brought about by generative artificial intelligence (“genAI”) is a profound one. The advent of writing tools like ChatGPT is having far-reaching impacts in many areas of the economy and our societies. Workers can now generate the text of emails, internal reports and even publications in seconds by Read more