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BibleTechnologyCultureCorey Hastings

Exercising Dominion After Generative Artificial Intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence can sometimes seem to mimic the uniquely human work of exercising dominion over creation.

Joshua HeavinThe HeronBooksTheology

The Heron #3: New and Forthcoming Books on the Bible and Theology

On the means and ends of this column devoted to notable new and forthcoming books, see the introductory paragraphs of its first edition. Herons who stalk their prey are supremely

Ryan SinniEducationTechnologyWriting

Slaves or Sons? LLMs, Wisdom, and Writing Instruction

There is a humane solution to the problem of the struggling writer: one that involves fellowship not only in the “space of reasons,” but also, as it were, in the “space of love.”

CultureJake Meador

You Cannot Escape First Principles: The Right-Wing Leninism of National Conservatism

National conservatism reduces politics down to little more than "who, whom?" which was a Leninist idea before it was a dissident right idea.

CultureFormationMatthew Loftus

Aldous Huxley’s Delicious Moral Treats Emporium

If people keep stoking the fires of moral outrage, we are likely to see more murders like Brian Thompson’s before the close of the decade.

Eddie LaRowCulture

Lincoln's Constitutionalism

If anyone would be, surely Lincoln could be justified in thinking our constitutional order had failed. But he did not. Instead, he responded to national crisis by doubling down on the Constitution.

CultureJohn ReasnorFormation

Alypius, Public Executions, and the Formation of Souls

To view death as entertainment or spectacle harms our soul even more than the act of execution harms the inmate's body.

BooksCultureDaniel Bennett

We Need More Religion in Public Life, Not Less

Kaemingk and Hamid believe our democratic order may be revived just yet, starting with more religion, not less.

FormationChurchJohn and Jena StarkeBooks

Sabbath Isn't a Strategy

Weariness and burnout are good reasons to come to the Sabbath. But they shouldn’t be the reasons that keep us there.

FamilyNadya Williams

An Interview with Drew and Megan Dickerson: Marriage, Family, and the Intellectual Life

What can intellectual life look like in the context of a bustling young family?

CultureChurchSarah Rexford

'What Is the Meaning of Christian In This American Life?'

Stepping out of the modern church taught me more about Jesus than anything I learned inside it.

ChurchFormationJessie Turpin

How Patient Attention Nurtures the Life of the Church

When people grow tired of the rapidly shifting nature of modern culture, weary of not finding happiness in self-satisfaction, they will find the core of their longing fulfilled in the steadfast, though paradoxical, love of Christ.