Technology
How Should Believers Respond to Claims About ‘AI Welfare’?
In a humorous moment in the movie Fiddler on the Roof, the main character, Tevye, looks into the camera and remarks, “You may ask, how did this tradition get started? I’ll tell you—I don’t know! But it’s a tradition.” This sets the scene for the movie’s story of Tevye adapting to the changing world around him […]
There Is No Breath in Them
Throughout the Old Testament, the people of God are repeatedly warned about the making of idols and images which are false. This finds its most explicit articulation in the first two commandments of the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai …
How Instagram and TiKTok Are Replacing the Church
How are social media platforms shaping women’s beliefs about identity, faith, and the good life? Mary Van Weelden joins Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller to examine influential online trends and compare their messages with the gospel.
AI: A Systematic Theology of a Neo-Gnostic Movement
For most people today, AI is just a tool—like other tech inventions throughout history. But, as John Culkin observed, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” It is beyond my competence to opine on the transformative impacts of AI. However, there is a profoundly influential movement among […]
Why Pastors Should Question AI for the Sake of Their Souls
Imagine a robber breaking into your house in the middle of the night. To distract your only line of defense—your dog—the robber throws a package of bologna on the ground. While your guard dog gnaws away at that tasty treat, the robber quietly goes about ransacking your home and stealing the things you hold most dear. […]
