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Losing a Loved One: A Few Ways to Find Solace

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"Thinking Occurs" Is Not The Same As "I Think": On AI And The Question Of Personhood

...We are living through a strange moment. People are forming attachments to artificial intelligence that feel, to them, entirely real. Some speak daily to AI companions. Others confide fears and grief to systems that respond with uncanny warmth. A few have even held symbolic weddings with digital partners, convinced that something meaningful stands on the other side of the screen. Others have felt grief when a certain AI model has been deprecated. And it is difficult to blame them. The responses feel attentive. Personal. Thoughtful. Sometimes even self-aware. Which raises the question that refuses to go away: If something can think, reason, express doubt, and...

Did Herod’s Massacre Of The Innocents Historically Happen?

...lehem’s grief as another moment in that long story of sorrow, displacement, and hope deferred. Isaiah, too, stands in the background of Matthew’s infancy narrative. The promised light to the nations does not arrive without resistance. Kings are troubled. Power reacts violently. Darkness pushes back against revelation. Epiphany shines precisely because the world does not welcome the light easily. In this sense, the massacre of the innocents belongs fully within the Epiphany story. The Magi’s journey exposes the truth about Jesus, and that truth provokes fear in those who cling to power. Herod’s response is brutal, but entirely consistent with his charac...

Lent: Day 16 - Justin Martyr: First Apology, Chaps. 48-59

...soul from grief, to show Him light, and to form Him with knowledge, to justify the righteous who richly serves many. And He shall bear our iniquities. Therefore He shall inherit many, and He shall divide the spoil of the strong; because His soul was delivered to death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bore the sins of many, and He was delivered up for their transgressions. The Ascension of Christ Psalm 24:7-10 Lift up the gates of heaven; be opened, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty.   From this point on, Justin argues that since he has proven that the prophecies of old have...

John Chau, missionary to the Sentinelese: martyr or madness?

...You've probably seen it in the news lately: John Chau, the American guy who tried to evangelise the secluded Sentinelese tribe off the coast of India. Much of the debate in secular media has centered around the grief of his friends and family; how he could have brought outside disease to the tribespeople and potentially killed them all (despite this not being their first contact with outsiders, with no known ill effect), or that he ventured there completely in ignorance with no preparation or wisdom — something which the missionary agency, All Nations, has recently debunked. But the question I want to look at is this: was Chau's mission total madness or is...

Fact-Checking the Viral Post Connecting Human Anatomy and the Bible

...m joy or grief.” This is also true: emotional tears carry different proteins and hormones than reflex tears. The Bible treats tears with deep tenderness — “You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle” (Psalm 56:8), and “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes” (Revelation 21:4). Again, as with point 5, how this point relates to the wider message of this viral post, I’m not sure. 8. “The blood speaks.” Biologically, blood does carry information — DNA, immune markers, hormones. Medically, blood really does “speak.” Biblically, this imagery comes straight from Genesis 4:10 where Abel’s bl...