Technology
AI: A Systematic Theology of a Neo-Gnostic Movement
For most people today, AI is just a tool—like other tech inventions throughout history. But, as John Culkin observed, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” It is beyond my competence to opine on the transformative impacts of AI. However, there is a profoundly influential movement among […]
Why Pastors Should Question AI for the Sake of Their Souls
Imagine a robber breaking into your house in the middle of the night. To distract your only line of defense—your dog—the robber throws a package of bologna on the ground. While your guard dog gnaws away at that tasty treat, the robber quietly goes about ransacking your home and stealing the things you hold most dear. […]
AI and Silicon Valley’s “Spirituality Without Religion”
It turns out that HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer), in Stanley Kubrick’s classic, *2001: A Space Odyssey*, is not just a digital slave. With HAL’s hauntingly stoic pleas for astronaut Dave Bowman to stop trying to dismantle it ignored, the machine takes over. It’s remarkable that a 1968 film […]
“Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age,” by Samuel James: A Review
Over the past few years, Samuel James has become one of the most insightful commentators on the formative power of digital technology in our lives. Through several articles in a variety of publications and through his [Substack](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/), James has been developing an argument that focuses […]
Media Ecology: A Brief Annotated Bibliography
After teaching an introductory course on media ecology at the college level for eighteen consecutive years, I place current authors into two camps[…]
