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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...

March 26, 2021

Technology after the Pandemic

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

September 2020

September 25, 2020

Digital Futures

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

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Digital Inequities

Rethinking technology in a time of pandemic and protest.

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 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...

December 15, 2019

The Advent of Automation

As the automation of work advances, what questions should we be asking about the future...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

Digital Transformation

Digital technologies have been changing our lives since the middle of the twentieth century. Digital...

October 2019

October 25, 2019

The Digital Dimension of Our Lives

There is a new digital dimension to reality, blending with and enhancing our embodied lives...

August 2019

August 15, 2019

Trust in Technology

In our increasingly complex technological environment of distributed agency, in whom and what do we...

June 2019

June 12, 2019

Technology and Faith

Where are people of faith speaking into discussions about the ethics and future of technology?

May 2019

May 24, 2019

Human Futures: Or, How Not to Be Apocalyptic

Moving beyond transhuman and posthuman futures toward truly apocalyptic human futures.

May 21, 2019

Elements of Digital Wisdom

Elements of a framework for clarifying values, goals, and actions in the digital age.

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Digital Reformation? Consider the Library

How should digital technologies transform the church as an institution? Is the library a model...

April 19, 2019

“What Could Possibly Go Right?”

As we consider what might go wrong with AI, we also must consider what should...

April 09, 2019

The Possibilities of AI Ethics

In light of Google’s dissolution of its external advisory group—barely a week after it was...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

The End and Beginning of Work

Advances in automation and artificial intelligence require us to consider the future of work as...

March 04, 2019

The Limits of Digital Ethics

Digital ethics discussions reveal important agreements as well as disagreements. How can our frameworks accommodate...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

Will AI Replace Man’s Best Friend? A Dog-lover’s take on robot dogs

AIs were popular gifts this past Christmas. Some of them were of the barking, tail-wagging...

January 06, 2019

The Meaning of the City

The city is an autonomous and intelligent multi-agent system participating in new creation.

December 2018

December 12, 2018

Advent for AI

Advent reflections on broadening our imaginative engagement with AI.

December 06, 2018

Forms of Creation

Some medieval wisdom for the machine age.