Category: The Trail
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One Fragile Person With Another
AI can now respond to grief and spiritual searching in ways people often find helpful. But pastoral care, at its deepest, cannot be separated from the person who gives it.
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Wanting What We Cannot Build
Transhumanism wants what Christianity wants: death defeated, life transformed. The question is whether that hope can be built, or only received.
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In the Loop
AI cannot be a moral agent. But the more urgent question is whether we remain moral agents when we use it.
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Set Free to Create?
When AI can do the engineering, what’s left for the human? A confession about always choosing the fix over the writing, and what that reveals about where the real barrier…
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The Quieter Pressure
Lewis wrote under the shadow of bombs. We live under something quieter and harder to name. I think that changes the question Christianity needs to answer.
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Behind the Garden: Meet the Team
I record a thought on the school run… and by the time I get home, it’s already been turned into something usable. The journal entry’s there, the ideas have been…
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When the System Gets It Wrong
Three failures from running Arbor in April 2026: a note read too literally, a solution more complicated than needed, an instruction that lived in the wrong place. What they reveal…
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If Machines Can Think… What Does It Mean to Be Human?
If a machine can reason, create, and learn, what’s left that’s distinctively us? A look at three ways of thinking about what it means to be made in God’s image,…
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Why My Code Needs a Compass
The deeper I’ve gone into data science, the more I’ve found that more data doesn’t always produce more certainty. It clarifies what we don’t know. That’s where faith and data…