artificial intelligence
The price of AI’s techno-religious promises
The environment is not the only sacrifice we’re being asked to make. Workers, too, are being offered up.
The workingman of Nazareth
As AI unsettles the future of work, Jesus’ identity as a tekton deserves a second look.
What does AI reveal about creation and vocation?
In the biblical imagination, God’s words bring the world into existence by command. Human speech accomplishes something different.
Saved by bad art
As AI continues to proliferate, I’ve been inviting my students to create something—anything.
Believe your own eyes—and cultivate your moral perception
Kristi Noem lied to the public about Alex Pretti’s death, and everyone could see it. But not everyone cared.
The night the universe looked back at me
Sometimes we glimpse magnificence in common occurrences. Science stumbles into poetry. We get a taste of singularity.
The parasocial power of AI
For some reason, it is sometimes easier for us to see personhood in a chatbot than in a fellow human.
Episode 51: GG Renee Hill, creative coach and author of Story Work
A conversation with GG Renee Hill about expressive writing, mental health, a four-step creative process, and more.
Episode 50: John Kasich, former governor, political analyst, and author of Heaven Help Us
A conversation with John Kasich about faith institutions, hope, civic engagement, and more.
Science is finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin
Frank and Mary Frost, the filmmakers behind a recent PBS documentary about the Jesuit paleontologist, have long seen him as a true visionary.
Episode 49: Psychotherapist Amanda Ann Gregory, author of You Don’t Need to Forgive
A conversation with Amanda Ann Gregory about trauma, forgiveness, gender justice, and more
Episode 48: Bishop Andy Doyle, author of Unabashed Faith
A conversation with Bishop Andy Doyle about sacred spaces, AI, digital sabbath, and more
When nice guys are dangerous
Two recent buzzy, twisty thrillers put gender dynamics at the center of the drama.
A pulpit without a context
I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.
A crushing lack of humanity
Both Apple’s “Crush” ad and Catholic Answers’ AI priest alarmed people. There’s some hope in that reaction.
Faith, hope, love, and AI
Our different responses to artificial intelligence point to different stories—and different Christian virtues.
Artificial intelligence needs theology
What exactly is an “evil robot”? Who gets to define it?