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July 28, 2026

AGI Has Not Arrived, and No Tech Company Wants It To

I have made some bold statements here about artificial intelligence, and I hope this most...

November 2021

November 18, 2021

Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions #CFP

ICOHTEC 2022 Call for Papers and Sessions Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions   The 2022 International...

October 2021

October 01, 2021

AI News

A round up of recent technology news that intersects with my interests: There are calls...

June 2021

June 14, 2021

Can Religions Make Room for Robots?

A while back Eboo Patel encouraged students to pursue degrees in the liberal arts for a...

May 2021

May 01, 2021

Science, Technology, and Ethics Update

Time for another collection of articles and other links related to the intersection of technology,...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

AI Transformations

It has been a while since I've written about the intersection of technology and religion....

March 20, 2021

Education in 2021

A friend and colleague shared this vision from 1997 of what education would be like...

February 2021

February 27, 2021

Polybook: A New App for Lifelong Learners and #LearningInPublic

It was great to have a Zoom conversation with Joe White yesterday. Joe is the...

February 20, 2021

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

This isn't a post about Les Miserables (although I could easily see myself turning my...

May 2020

May 04, 2020

Altered Carbon

There's so much that one can say about Altered Carbon at the intersection of religion....

December 2019

December 30, 2019

Robotic Religion

I thought I'd share a recording of the lunchtime discussion I led on the...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

AI and Other Tech News and #CFP

Due to my current research interests, I am keeping an even closer eye on news...

May 2019

May 23, 2019

Digital Biblical Studies and InterTECHstuality

Many blogs and social media posts are highlighting the publication of a new book from...

May 08, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Brian Wesolowski, Part 1

 As promised, here in this week's ReligionProf Podcast is the conversation (actually, for today,...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

Technology and Grace

Anyone who makes a sweeping generalization about the inability of technology to being a means...

December 2018

December 26, 2018

ReligionProf Podcast with Christopher Benek

Here is the supersized ReligionProf Podcast that was released as a "Christmas Special" yesterday, featuring...

December 11, 2018

Digital Humanities at Work

I have been meaning to blog about HumaReC for some time. HumaReC stands for Humanities...

December 05, 2018

ReligionProf Podcast with Douglas Estes Part 2: Time, Immortality, and Technology

Of the theological topics that I tackle in my book Theology and Science Fiction, one that...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

ReligionProf Podcast with Douglas Estes

This week's podcast features Douglas Estes, a New Testament scholar like myself who also engages...

October 2018

October 17, 2018

ReligionProf Podcast Episode 8 with Ankur Gupta: Curation, Filters, and Bubbles

In the second part of my conversation with Ankur Gupta about our Artificial Wisdom project,...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

Good News for Immortals

New Scientist shared the results of a survey of the public which indicates that most...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Reality and Relationship Online

The thoughts below from Jason Dueck are specifically about and inspired by Ready Player One,...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

Can I Attend Church Via a Human Uber?

I'm going to share links to several articles and blog posts here that I think...

February 07, 2018

Life and Tech

Someone said to me recently that they are not sure that we are happier with...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Call for Book Chapters on The Anthropological Study of Religious and Religion-Themed Mobile Apps

The Anthropological Study of Religious and Religion-Themed Mobile Apps (a call for book chapters):

August 2017

August 23, 2017

The Older Faculty Mindset List

Beloit released its latest Mindset List, about the things that the current incoming class of...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

Homo Deus

In his book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari writes, "Despite all the talk of radical...

June 2017

June 08, 2017

Look Up

The above video, "Look Up," might be a useful counter to the concern that keeps...

October 2016

October 19, 2016

Missing Comments Restored

A blog reader alerted me that the comments on an older post, "Your Daily Dose...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

Hacker Fight

I enjoyed this video which pokes fun at the difference between hacking as depicted in...

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