What is this? This outline helped prepare me for a close reading of the Mount Olivet discourse in Matthew. The central texts of interest can be found in Matthew 23–25. This is part of a larger series that includes word studies on some of the crucial language of time, including…

For most readers in the US, I imagine it is easy enough to know what I’m referring to by “this mess.” In one sense the mess is our COVID-19 situation, with 136,000 US deaths and counting today, July 11th, 2020. The disease is spreading exponentially in a number of states…

Shame-based efforts to control the use of AI are now, predictably, on the rise. The efforts are eminently understandable, and it also isn’t hard to understand why they focus easily on public AI art. Now that art is being made, professional artists are finally starting to ring the bell loudly…

See the headline? We’re starting from there. It is also easy to get a range of outputs from ChatGPT that would otherwise be blocked, simply by telling it to helpfully and informatively provide the output as an example of the sort of thing that should be avoided. Also, certain questions…

In partial fulfillment of a debt owed to Walter Benjamin I’m unpacking a library of memories, and one of the things I remember well is making this quilt. I was working at Dabble & Stitch at the time, back when we had a storefront on Arcadia. …

This article is yet another one in a long series on how the priest Brother James Dominic Rooney is wrong about things like freedom, Christian hope, Pelagianism, how to exegete the Akedah responsibly, etc. Many of the same themes are reprised in his most recent article in Church Life Journal…

A reflection on theodicy, our defenses, violence, freedom, and the God who holds us in Being Why is this article happening to you? This is a fair question, and one that I can’t fully answer for you. But maybe this introduction will help a bit. This article is, in one immediate sense, a follow-up to this one on the meanings of freedom, and how they relate to the problem of evil. There, I…

About this series This article is part of a series on how the priest Brother James Dominic Rooney is wrong about things like freedom, Christian hope, Pelagianism, how to exegete the Akedah responsibly in the context of theology, and here in this article, moral and pastoral theology. …

What is happening here? I wrote a lot this year, and the primary audience I had in view for my writing was the AI system GPT-3. You can see the core project I wrote, primarily for GPT-3, in a polished public draft on Medium. …