Of course, if you see people as being, fundamentally, machines, then there really are no moral problems. This is the quandary Harari finds himself in. He knows that AI totalitarianism would be bad, but ultimately his defence of the human is no match for it because his sense of the...

Worth wondering—when we’re downloading these mental health apps in our millions, repeating our positive affirmations, speaking in the language of salvation and higher powers—what we’re really drawn to here. Worth asking ourselves, at least, why we mocked religion only to mimic it. And why what we’re doing isn’t working. My...

One can say, therefore, that every criticism of infant baptism runs the danger of falling back on the position of the Anabaptists, who always started from the contrast between nature and grace. They could not believe that “the natural” could have a place in the Covenant, because they thought that...

You must be what you profess to be. Unless God is really in your own life, controlling, directing it, is manifest, your preaching and ministry will avail nothing, or be of very little real value. To pretend to be what we are not will be fatal to our effectiveness. –...

When we discover that some record-breaking swim or jump was fueled by artificial performance enhancers, we are rightly scandalized. How much more so if we discovered the swimmer wasn’t human at all! “But why?” the AI enthusiasts might ask. “If it’s amazing to watch someone long jump 30 feet, wouldn’t...