Review by Cole Hartin Richard J. Foster’s Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue is a bit of a puzzle. As a meditation on humility, it is surely a welcome gift during the season of Lent. But the path to the subject is labyrinthine. Instead of a study structured topically or historically, it is a haphazard set of field notes from Foster’s musings in a … [Read more...] about Lenten and Lent-Adjacent
Archives for January 27, 2023
Reading and the Spiritual Imagination
By H.S. Cross Picture a Venn diagram of writers, classicists, and Christians. Here Faith and Literature conversations happen. One conversation that has echoed across the past 10 years asks, Where have all the Christian writers gone? It tends to focus heavily on Flannery O’Connor and hold new literature in suspicion. Our culture has lost its religion, it says, and … [Read more...] about Reading and the Spiritual Imagination
Artificial Intelligence and the Episcopal Church
Review by Kirk Petersen Artificial intelligence has been much in the news of late, particularly ChatGPT, a creation of OpenAI, which instantly begins spitting out detailed answers when a question is entered. Articles about ChatGPT generally fall in one of two categories: Gee whiz, this is so cool! (Despite its inaccuracies and other flaws.) Artificial intelligence … [Read more...] about Artificial Intelligence and the Episcopal Church