I loved this interview with mathematician and professor Steven Strogatz, which asks deep questions about what it means to be human. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Everything he is saying here is fully vindicating my belief that we need Religious Studies as an academic discipline to begin to understand the culture surrounding AI, and its millenarian fantasies.
I spent the evening with a group of faculty at Wesleyan discussing how to teach writing in the age of AI because we very much DO believe it is valuable at the college level.
Strong disagree.
I came across this 2019 essay by Elesha Coffman in UChicago Divinity’s Sightings, asking if we’ll continue to forget women like Rachel Held Evans in our telling of American religious history. I’m hoping that my book is part of the remembering.
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You really have to read this to believe it. Jon Malesic finds convincing evidence of an AI author finding real success in a genre one might hope would be resistant to slop: spiritual essays in small, serious Christian magazines. (At least 1 was a cover story!) jonmalesic.substack.com/p/how-i-unco...
I just read today she taught at Wesleyan! RIP.
The Christian Left exists! And we need more scholarship on it. 🙂
I had my first laptop-free class yesterday and it was great! Students were on board!
I spoke to journalist Alaina Demopoulos for this piece on a conservative Christian podcast.
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