Show pitch: Magnum, A. I. I. Follows the exploits of a university professor forced to devote more of his time to investigating illegitimate uses of AI.

“Indeed in [Neil] Postman’s view, ‘a citizenry that reads becomes serious. On a diet of television, a citizenry turns silly.’ And we seem to be living through really silly times…” open.substack.com/pub/savvasco...

There is a lifetime of biblical truth to be discovered in plain sight, so don’t waste your life scouring the Scriptures for secret messages and codes to crack. And avoid those who do.

“In the era of artificial intelligence, take-home writing assignments have become so difficult to police for integrity that many educators have simply stopped assigning them.” Truth. I’m assigning more in-class writing and experimenting with oral exams. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

“As they use AI, wisdom-seeking Christians shouldn’t ask ‘How can I produce as much as possible?’ They should rather ask, ‘How will I use this in a way that corresponds with my creaturely limits?’” www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/valu...

“There are clear steps the government can take that both parties can agree on. But Washington lacks urgency. Unless we change course, A.I. systems will overwhelm the capacity of a distracted and sclerotic U.S. government to manage their development.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

“Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.” (John 11:5-6 ESV) Gods love, at times, takes strange forms.

Ezekiel 33. God’s people treated his words as entertaining content rather than authoritative commands. The internet readily foments such erroneous thinking.

Pro tip for college students: start the semester imagining you’re at the end, desperate for extra credit to improve your grade, and work like it. Repeat daily throughout the semester.

God being able to use anything to accomplish his purposes doesn’t mean we can or should try.

“I propose, as a general rule of thumb, that we ought not to use an LLM for anything that we were capable of doing well ourselves with other tools before the LLM came along.  Writing, reading, analyzing, communicating—these obviously are well within our wheelhouse.” thedispatch.com/article/arti...

“Sure, we have retained some of what could constitute a proper education, but we are administering it largely as training and information memorization on pupils whom we have raised to believe the goal of education is economic utility.” open.substack.com/pub/coltonca...

Two things I love: books and—OK, ONE thing I love: books.

I’m old enough to remember when it was reasonable and commonplace to expect seriousness of public officials.

Teaching Evaluations Are Undermining Academic Integrity “…faculty members who teach demanding courses may receive lower ratings not because they teach poorly, but because students conflate challenge with poor instruction.” www.chronicle.com/article/teac...

Based on @bonniekristian.bsky.social’s previous work and the description, I expect this to be very good. open.substack.com/pub/bonniekr...

“At the time he wrote 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥, [T. S.] Eliot was not a Christian, but he understood that the loss of Christianity in the West was the loss of coherence. And I think we’re still feeling the effects of that loss a hundred years later.” @oalannoble.bsky.social

“Such books represent the commodification of information. They are not created to better anyone’s life or convey sound doctrine.” www.challies.com/articles/ai-...

Amidst all the talk about the ethics of AI, this is a topic often neglected. How does AI consumption impact the poor and marginalized and how should Christians respond? open.substack.com/pub/benhein/...

I detest the impact AI has on many students.

People want a “Higher Power” with lower authority.

Practically everyone thinks it’s important to teach children right from wrong. Unfortunately, few think it’s important to teach them what grounds right and wrong or give much thought to it themselves.

Santiago Schnell in “Repairing the Ruins: Why AI Can’t Replace Education”:

Occasionally, an article brings tears of joy to my eyes because it rings with neglected truth. This is one. “But utility is not the same as education, and AI magnifies an older weakness. It tempts us to mistake verbal fluency for understanding itself.” www.ncregister.com/commentaries...

It’s easy to forget, but crucial to remember, that a church’s shepherds are also sheep.

One of two chapters Jared Cooney Horvath devotes to AI in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘒𝘪𝘥𝘴’ 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 -- 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘰 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯

Grateful to Dr. Jarvis Williams for sending his latest work.

I wrote this 21 years ago this month. I stand by it. “By verbal litter I mean the heaps of words that are carelessly spoken, typed, and forwarded; that must be waded through in search of those that are really valuable.” christianmind.blogspot.com/2005/04/verb...

A steady diet of short-form content will have damaging long-term consequences.

Friendship is all too often underrated.

Sat down in my Amtrak seat and instinctively looked for the seatbelt. Airlines can’t compete with this legroom!

“As Gizmodo framed it plainly: workers are ‘essentially being told they are training the systems that will replace them.’” apple.news/ABvAB1jj8QtK...

“But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.” (Ezekiel 20:8-9 ESV) He does all for his name’s sake, and it is good.

“The growing interest in fast degrees has spawned a mini-industry of coaches offering advice on how to find a school, figure out what classes to take and speed through the programs.” www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Great piece from Molly Worthen. “This has been the greatest blunder in the past decade of K-12 education: the decision to give every child a personal computer and to gamify everything from standardized test preparation to recess.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

"In the video message, Trump, according to organizers, will read a passage from 2 Chronicles 7:11-22, which includes the frequently quoted verse 14..." I'll keep saying it. Stop 2 Chronicles 7:14 abuse. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The claim that convenience is neither a necessity nor an entitlement is increasingly implausible to the modern mind.

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

Relax restrictions on AI. Relax restrictions on psychedelics. What could go wrong? 🤷🏾‍♂️

“At what point do we look at all of this and just admit that this stopped being about faith a long time ago?” youtu.be/-1J6cV1amp0?...

“They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word.” (Ezekiel 13:6 ESV) A false prophet is the first victim of his deception.

"[N]ew technologies compete with old ones—for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view." -Neil Postman, 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘺

Pastor, professor, and fellow Cairn University faculty member, Dr. Bryan Murawski, sat down with me to talk about his very helpful book, 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

“Superhuman’s mission is to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone.” As if being human is not good enough. www.grammarly.com/blog/company...

“Silicon Valley is in the business of 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. It wants to insert its products as directly as possible between us and the outside world…But what does it mean for the human mind to be trained, constantly, to ask an external presence for help?” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/m...

The impiety and lack of seriousness should be alarming. That professing Christians are quick to dismiss and/or excuse them is cause for further alarm.

The Son of God was not sent to condemn the world (John 3:17), but to rescue it from already existing condemnation (3:18, 36).

“Wisdom is not encyclopedic; it is teleological. It orders facts in relation to truth, means in relation to ends, and the temporal in relation to the eternal. It is integrative, giving coherence to the fragmented and scattered data of experience.” -Michael S. Rose

Excellent article on a subject never far from my mind. Glad to learn that Jeff Bilbro has a book on AI (𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦) forthcoming. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/03/what...

I’m glad @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social (really) wrote this. “[AI writing] presents a formational threat to Christians, an invitation to take the easy path in our creative work, and in the process deforming our creativity altogether.” www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/to-w...