Epistemic Status: Budding

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In the Loop

    AI cannot be a moral agent. But the more urgent question is whether we remain moral agents when we use it.

  • Someone Who’s Falling

    A dream ended with a card: someone who’s falling doesn’t need to be told, they need to be caught. A talk from last Sunday, and a thought that keeps opening…

  • Letter to Isaac: Forgive… Let It Go

    A letter to Isaac on forgiveness. You don’t do it for the person who wronged you. You do it so resentment doesn’t take up permanent residence in you.

  • 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…

  • Procrastination… Ten Years On

    Ten years after writing about procrastination as a productivity problem, I’m starting to see it differently… less as laziness, more as a signal I need to notice sooner.

  • Reading Mere Christianity

    I came to Mere Christianity as a reformed atheist. What stays with me isn’t the argument, but Lewis’s idea that transformation and improvement are two completely different things.

  • Systems, Votes, and Grace — Reading James Clear

    Reading James Clear alongside Dallas Willard and wondering whether the identity I think I have is fixed or just a set of habits that never got questioned.

  • Letter to Isaac: Strive… Keep Moving Forward

    A letter to my son about the difference between hard work, striving, and big dreams. Why marginal gains matter, and why the itch to keep getting better is something worth…