Review: The Ballot and the Bible

Review: The Ballot and the Bible

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...
More than Information

More than Information

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...
Black-Letter Christians

Black-Letter Christians

There is a growing tribe within the larger Christian world today of what we might call “red-letter Christians.” There is, in fact, a US-based organisation that calls itself by that name, but there are many others who may not formally affiliate with the organisation,...
Favoured Faith

Favoured Faith

Scripture singles out two women as “most blessed” by God. The first was Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, who was praised as “most blessed of women” for her courageous act of violently killing Israel’s—and God’s— enemy, Sisera (Judges 5:24). The second, and far more...
Dealing with Disappointment

Dealing with Disappointment

Few things are as disheartening as unfulfilled expectations. While we recognise that disappointment is a part of life, things can get ugly when expectations are met with disappointment. The ancient philosopher Epictetus advised, “Do not seek to have events happen as...