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The Bible is full of little details and comments that don’t seem to mean very much. You can feel all at sea and wonder what’s going on. Perhaps it’s tempting to think ‘this is a cultural reference I don’t understand.’ That could be true. However, I’d like to suggest a different approach to Bible reading.… Continue reading Let the Bible interpret the Bible
Your church shouldn’t be too easy to join. This is probably counter-intuitive to many, we spend such a lot of time trying to remove barriers to welcome people into church and often in really helpful ways, but let me try and show you my thinking. Nor is this a bait-and-switch where I’ll end by saying… Continue reading Don’t be too easy to join
AI is sycophantic, did you know that? Antropic AI, recently published a paper explaining their recent research in Large Language Models (LLMs, what we have taken to calling Generative AI). They found that LLMs have a bias towards answers that they defined as sycophantic but incorrect. In other words, the AI tells us what we… Continue reading Sycophants and Liars
As Christians who want to love people well, we should prize clarity as being the kindest way we can speak. Luke Simmons tweeted this a few months back: https://twitter.com/lukedsimmons/status/1707883978018205719?s=20 The thread moves on to discuss ways he hadn’t been clear in his leadership in the past and how to produce clarity in the future. It’s… Continue reading Clarity is kind
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