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Nuancing into Nothingness
I sometimes wonder if the Christian church has ever been as tribalistic as it is today. Perhaps I am guilty of chronological snobbery for even asking the question, but, regardless, extreme tribalism is certainly an unhealthy characteristic of large segments of the...
Baptizatus sum
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...
The evangelical pope
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,...
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
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
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...