Good takes take time.

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph," - Susan Sontag in 1979 (From a good book I’m reading)

The grace displayed in the flood was not special grace but common grace. The ark did not save unto eternal life but for temporal life on earth. - Kuyper

It is not that one repents, experiences forgiveness, and then is later baptized, but rather that the attitude of repentance comes to tangible expression in the act of baptism. - Stan Fowler

In Matthew 15:4-6, Jesus warns against using one commandment to override a different command (in this case. If you think Jesus is a great moral teacher, you won’t use “love neigbour” to override the condemnation of sexual immorality.

Tomorrow, I teach my first class at Heritage College and Seminary. Today, I was feeling nervous. Then I played basketball. Now I feel pure excitement to teach. Also very thankful. God is good.

A Professor, a Pastor, and a Product Manager discuss technology in 2026. Listen to our podcast: What Would Jesus Tech?

I am more delighted to have declared the truth than to be praised for it. - Augustine

Be careful not to over-psychologize in hermeneutics and interpretation. From Paul Riceour:

We underestimate how substantially different writing is from speaking. From Ricouer:

In Scripture, we are not enemies or subjects of technology but kings and queens who rule.

The New Testament lies concealed in the Old, the Old lies revealed in the New. - Augustine

Reading books isn’t safe, but it is good. - Justin Holcomb

Our criticism of technology lags behind its seductive power. - Sherry Turkle

Less than a week to sign up for my new course at Heritage College and Seminary.

What we imagine most is what we image best. To navigate technology wisely, we must know Jesus.

Read enough Wendell Berry, and you might reject AI for the sake of nature. Read enough Jacques Ellul, and you might reject AI for the sake of telos. Or at least that’s how it seems to happen. The truth is much more complicated. I wrote about that here: www.andrewnoble.net/p/whats-your...

A "religionless" human is a mere construct, as thin and vacuous an abstraction as the "natural man" of Rousseau and the adherents of the social contract. In reality it never existed. - Herman Bavinck

Idols must be named, understood, and demythologized as part of Christian formation.

Technology is not just something that mediates between our mental intentions and the physical world about us, technology gets inside our heads and affects the very way in which we conceive our reality. - George Pattison

"Screens can be like a Swiss Army knife at a meal. The extra features distract from what’s important." @andrewnoble.bsky.social ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/phys...

Every physical substance contains a spiritual reality.

It is only in Christ that we know what it is to be human. - Herman Bavinck

Modern people have no moral ideal, no example; they are only infatuated with progress toward a misty ideal. They are, therefore, restless, empty, without authority, disconnected, and emancipated. - Herman Bavinck in the early 1900s

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sheep. - God

Top 7 biblical themes to teach on technology: 1) idol / identity / image 2) creation / cultural mandate / new creation 3) exile / Babylon 4) shame / clothes / ark / imputation 5) possessions / ownership / money 6) relationship / church / love 7) virtue / Spirit / fruit

Would we have gotten C.S. Lewis’ enchantment without Barfield’s participation?

Theology podcasts I enjoy: - Into Theology - London Lyceum - Mere Fidelity - Grace in Common - Thinking About The Faith (I cohost this one with Jon Cleland)

A story in two images.

All of modernity's problems stem from man's inability to admit he is not his own.

Love is best understood not merely as an act of will, in contrast to the act of the intellect, but rather as an ontological unity, within which we properly will and understand. - D.C. Schindler

Sympathy/empathy in Calvin.

Knowing “technology” for what it is requires the recognition of what has been lost politically and ethically. - George Grant

Three kinds of Christians who aren’t ready for AI. Those who lean too much on: 1) Pragmatics 2) Passivity 3) Pontification Who is ready? The ones who are strong in prudence and purpose. They will thrive while the rest stumble.

Seeing younger Christians think like this makes my heart sing! “It is better for a pastor to be present w/ his people and to preach a text w/o elegance or extensive research than for a corner-cutting pastor to rely on technology.” @andrewnoble.bsky.social ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/your...

Important piece from @gravleyaustin.bsky.social www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/chur...

Let us Christians, therefore, give thanks to the Lord our God — not to heaven and earth, as Cicero argues, but to the One who made heaven and earth. - Augustine

I’ve read or skimmed around 5 or so books on AI. When they talk about AI in HR, they struggle. They cherry pick data, exaggerate data, and either make AI seem better or worse than it actually is. I sometimes wonder if AI is so vast a field that “experts” should speak more narrowly.

We nurture what we love, and we love what we nurture. - Sherry Turkle

If you regard evangelism as the primary and/or foremost function of the church, then things like “virtual reality church” seem plausible. Too often, spiritualized pragmatism, rather than biblical ecclesiology, drive decisions as to what ought to be done and how.

True “mortification” in the context of Colossians 3:5 has to do with a transformation of the will, a new attitude of the mind (cf. Rom 6:11)... “a radical shifting of the very centre of the personality from self to Christ" (Moule) - Peter O’Brien

Looking forward to diving into this!

Great podcast series. Highly recommend. Last few episodes have been incredibly good.

I have so much to learn.

GenAI tends to be inaccurate, especially in the way it summarizes. "In a direct comparison of LLM-generated and human-authored science summaries, LLM summaries were nearly five times more likely to contain broad generalizations."

Having kids is awesome.

This book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in AI. If you know Ellul’s anthropology in Propaganda, this is a qualitative documentation of it (but with robots).

Trying to find the thought process [in an LLM result] is like trying to find the body on the other side of a mirror. - Shannon Vallor (paraphrased)

AI is not a fad. It's not going away. But the ad-free honeymoon phase will end.

Imagine going to the gym and bringing a robot to lift the weights for you. It's stupid. But we have students thinking ChatGPT is okay. Wild times.