ChatGPT: Revisiting the AI Issue
ChatGPT: Revisiting the AI Issue “In one of his lectures, [Joseph] Weizenbaum pointed out that we are incessantly striking Faustian bargains with this [AI] technology. In such contracts, both sides get something: the devil gets the human soul; humans get the services that delight us. Sometimes, the trade-off works for us, but with this […]
God’s Blast from the past: Promise Keepers
GOD’S BLAST FROM THE PAST: PROMISE KEEPERS “Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” Proverbs 27:17 “Our generation put a man on the moon; this generation has put a man in the girl’s bathroom.” Mario Murrillo A week ago today, I was walking through the […]
Ode to William (“Bill”) Phillips
ODE TO WILLIAM (“BILL”) PHILLIPS “… I will never have it that God created any man, especially any Christian man, to be a blank, and to be a nothing. He made you for an end. Find out what that end is; find out your own niche and fill it. If it be ever so […]
Sandpiper’s Ode
SANDPIPER’S ODE “All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something—” Elizabeth Bishop Last week I was walking on the beach and thinking of several people in my life—in particular, a former student and now CEO—and […]
Three Wise Men
THREE WISE MEN “In Persia is the city of Saba, from which the Three Magi set out when they went to worship Jesus Christ; and in this city they are buried, in three very large and beautiful monuments, side by side. And above them there is a square building, carefully kept. The bodies are […]
Three Courage Exemplars
THREE COURAGE EXEMPLARS “Yet there was something else about the man [in the water] that kept our thoughts on him, and, which keeps our thoughts on him still. He was there, in the essential classic circumstance. Man in nature. The man in the water. For its part, nature cared nothing about the five passengers. […]