by Stuart | 14 Feb 2024 | Blog
It is said that, when Martin Luther struggled with fear or despair, he would write on his desk, in chalk, baptizatus sum (“I am baptised”). He found strength and comfort in the thought of his baptism. Baptism was, as it were, an objective anchor against doubt and...
by Stuart | 11 Feb 2024 | Reviews
There may be few terms traversing the contemporary religious landscape as confusing and polarising as “deconstruction.” When John Cooper, some years back, declared war on deconstruction, his comments were met by an overwhelming blend of support and derision. Many...
by Stuart | 18 Aug 2023 | Blog
One of the struggles that emerged from the Protestant Reformation was the battle over authority. The Catholic Church vested—and continues to vest—equal authority in Scripture, tradition, and the magisterium (the teaching authority of the church). In Catholic thought,...
by Stuart | 15 Aug 2023 | Reviews
I recently had the opportunity to join the launch team for Kaitlyn Schiess’s latest book, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here. Reading as a non-American afforded me something of an outside...
by Stuart | 10 Aug 2023 | Blog
In November 2022, OpenAI released the now wildly popular ChatGPT, which it styles as “an AI-powered language model … capable of generating human-like text based on context and past conversations.” The platform raised, and continues to raise, all sorts of ethical...
