Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! I try to have a playful relationship with the feast of the Ascension, which is one of the principal feasts of the church. Not irreverent, exactly, but joyful and honest. Because, of all the doctrinally significant aspects of the Jesus Event, this one is the …
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Let Us Not Replace Our Humanity
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Since the public release of the large language models (LLM) which is what we tend to mean when speaking of AI — like ChatGPT and Claude — I have tried to hold an ambivalent attitude toward them, wanting to be both optimistic and pessimistic in appropriate …
Obligated to Respond
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Last week, when the president of the United States insulted Pope Leo XiV and attempted to explain Christian theology to him, it became clear that at least one aspect of U.S. politics has totally jumped the shark. That is the binary, one-side-or-the-other framing …
