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August 2024

August 24, 2024

Is AI Controlling Us, or Are We Truly Free?

The Freedom of AI We often find ourselves concerned with the degree to which AI...

December 2023

December 15, 2023

AI at Christmastime

It’s Christmastime. On my list of things to do – after getting all my grades...

September 2023

September 23, 2023

ChatGPT and Education

A group of faculty from my institution gathered earlier this month to discuss the presence...

November 2022

November 09, 2022

AI and Religion in 2041

AI 2041 offers glimpses of what religion might look like in a world transformed by...

June 2022

June 23, 2022

AI, Faith, the Future, and the Apocalyptic Imagination

I am pleased to announce that AI, Faith, and the Future, a book I edited and...

March 2022

March 25, 2022

Lecture on AI and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Upcoming public lecture: “Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination: The Ends of Artificial Agency,” April...

February 2022

February 02, 2022

Religious Engagement with AI Ethics

The G20 Interfaith Working Group for Research and Innovation on Science, Technology, and Infrastructure recommendations...

September 2021

September 28, 2021

Hope and Longing in Las Vegas

Las Vegas is a generative site for exploring fear and loathing—as well as hope and...

August 2021

August 04, 2021

Faith in Digital Futures

On Facebook, the Church, and the Metaverse.

July 2021

July 21, 2021

Technological Realism

Whether you are inclined toward technological optimism, pessimism, or ambivalence, we all need to become...

July 19, 2021

Our Information Apocalypse

What is our current information crisis revealing?

March 2021

March 26, 2021

Technology after the Pandemic

Digital transformation should be about digital augmentation rather than digital amputation.

February 2021

February 22, 2021

The Relational Turn in Digital Ethics

On our relationship with digital data and technologies.

January 2021

January 29, 2021

Technological Epiphanies

What are our present social crises revealing about our emerging information and technological environment?

November 2020

November 17, 2020

Resources for Imagining the Post-Digital Church

By learning how to be “digital first,” digital transitions happening within the church can become...

November 05, 2020

The Problem with “The Social Dilemma”? It’s hiding in plain sight!

“The Social Dilemma” opens with powerful quotes from powerful people. They laud the technology as...

October 2020

October 23, 2020

The Digital Turn and Our Post-Digital Future

Our present experience of forced digital change can help us imagine a post-digital future—if we...

September 2020

September 25, 2020

Digital Futures

Eschatology is an important theological resource for thinking about technology and the future.

July 2020

July 15, 2020

Digital Transformation and Ministry

A course and framework for church digital transformation.

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Digital Inequities

Rethinking technology in a time of pandemic and protest.

May 2020

May 29, 2020

A Virtual Summit on COVID-19 and the Digital Transformation of the Church

An opportunity to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic and digital technologies may transform the church.

April 2020

April 22, 2020

The Digital Transformation of the Church through and beyond COVID-19: Survival Is Insufficient

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and digitalized church life. What’s next for the digital future...

April 16, 2020

A Roadmap for Theological Engagement with Artificial Intelligence

What might a roadmap for AI Theology look like?

April 09, 2020

COVID-19, AI Ethics, and Vocation

Many of the responses to COVID-19 highlight the possibilities and limits of artificial intelligence. These...

March 2020

March 28, 2020

Apocalypse Now and Not Yet: N. T. Wright’s Recovery of the Apocalyptic Imagination

N. T. Wright critiques modern philosophy, historiography, and theology to recover the apocalyptic imagination—and to...

March 15, 2020

Digital Wisdom in the Time of Coronavirus Disease 2019

As educational institutions become more technologically agile in the midst of a global health crisis,...

February 2020

February 19, 2020

Science Fiction and the Technological Imagination

Science fiction is am imaginative resource for epistemological, ethical, and eschatological reflection—and it is shaping...

February 11, 2020

The Good Place and a Better Place for Technology

Reflections on The Good Place, the digital device paradigm, and creating a better world.

February 08, 2020

Fear and Loathing in the Technological City

Hunter S. Thompson’s affirmation of the technological city.

December 2019

December 31, 2019

9.5 Theses about Technology

More than fifty years into the digital revolution, we need at least 95 theses to...