Why the conversation matters
Last fall, Pastor Will Rose and I recorded our soon-to-be released podcast, Your Matter Matters. From the outset of our conversation, we knew that we could not answer every question. As we talked more with our guests, we realized that we started having more questions...
Handling conversations with care: Where religion and public policy meet
One of the recurring conversations I have had over the past several months is to what extent the church (or religious organizations) and the state (governing bodies) have to do with one another. Should faith-based organizations influence public policy, and should...
God, Democracy and the Trial of the Century: The Scopes Trial revisited
In her recent book, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation, Brenda Wineapple paints the two key figures in the Scopes Trial, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, as two old cultural warriors who wanted to give their last hurrah...
The asymmetrical relationship of AI and humanity: A book review
Noreen Herzfeld’s “The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age” posits that that humans are counterpart to God, and that AI is a counterpart to humanity.
