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 | 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...
by Stuart | 28 Apr 2023 | Blog
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,...
by Stuart | 10 Oct 2022 | Blog
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...
by Stuart | 27 Sep 2022 | Blog
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...
by Stuart | 19 Sep 2022 | Blog
One of the curses of the contemporary Western-influenced evangelical church has been the rise of celebrity Christianity. While it is often no fault of the preacher’s, many Christians have elevated certain gifted preachers to celebrity, if not cult, status. One of the...
