Alexander Fink highlights 5 theses to guide our understanding of AI and its place in our world.

The system that gives esteem to engaged employees also creates anxiety only quelled through working more intensively. Perhaps we can bring more of the refreshing gospel of Christ to our workplaces.

Repentance is the most “R rated” word in the world. Our modern society wants relief, not repentance because repentance costs something and it's not comfortable.

An essay questioning the fruits of optimisation. Part 3: Consider Sabbath.

An essay questioning the fruits of optimisation. Part 2: Optimisation and Fragility. What is the “cult of efficiency” doing to our humanity?

An essay questioning the fruits of optimisation. Part 1: What are we aiming for when we optimise? Do we even count the costs? What does it mean to live a good life?

May there be ever so much of God’s goodness in our being together...

Ever since the trust was broken in Eden, we are living in an anxious age. How can we learn to trust again? What does the Bible say about worry and anxiety?

Dr Peterson has expressed that aspiring towards the ‘Christ figure’ ideal, so admirably and wholeheartedly, is no walk in the park. But Christians don't imitate Christ apart from Christ.

We are living in an anxious age. Many of us also find ourselves anxious, if not permanently, at least more often than we would like to be, in dealing with challenges.

As the digital is a medium of projection, “people no longer consider themselves subjects that are cast under a general law but as self-designing—self-casting and, indeed, self-optimizing—projects”.

'Homo digitalis' uses his finger (his digit) to interact with the world. Above all, the finger counts. Either he is always counting and calculating, or else he is always being counted and calculated.

Social media is a medium of immediate presence. As representation is giving way to online presence, the swarm enters, dissolving old limitations at its own peril.

Byung-Chul Han, the Korean-German thinker, offers us a stark contrast: pursue the fleeting outrage that is amplified online, at the peril of our democracy or re-integrate discourse, urgently.

Should we save beauty or could we be saved by it?

As she worked from home for most of her working life, Cláudia shares her practical experience and advice on how to work from home well.

Lloyd Lee argues that the Apple Watch exemplifies a modern view of time that dissipates the fullness of the Christian view of time.

We Christians celebrate story as central and significant in our faith. Not only are we swept along by the great salvation story of history, but also, we are invited to participate in God’s story.

The imperative behind the recognition of the worth of black lives isn’t beholden to the news agenda. The force behind the statement is to be found in the very nature of God.

In the midst of crises, cries and weeping, Jesus is sowing a new world.

As a fresh student entering university, you might feel like a young sailor ready to board on their first expedition. Should you rather back off? Or should You dare the risk?

How can we wait well? Hoping in hope alone is not a good place to start. Thankfully our belief in the risen LORD is a ground for true hope.

How do you want to look back from your undying lands one day on how you lived in the days of corona in that year 2020?

Every once in a while, we are confronted with challenging times, personal or social crises which remind us just how dependent we truly are. Remembering God is long overdue. Now the time has come.

The last 20s were known as “free-wheeling” and “carefree” and “spirit-full”, times of hope and hardship, and times of global transformation as well. What will the 2020s be like?

The authors address an important topic - yet is the book’s conclusion that “continually producing more goods and services is the only route from poverty to prosperity” (p65) something we can support?

“On the first mountain you tend to be ambitious, strategic, and independent. On the second mountain you tend to be relational, intimate, and relentless.” David Brooks

Integrating generosity into our lives is fundamentally a heart issue. The way we relate to money and possessions is a spiritual matter. How we use our resources reveals our priorities.

Generous living is living a sacrificial life. A life of joy and ultimate freedom: not merely giving enough so we have a clear conscience, but willing to let go of anything that God might ask us to.

When diverging opinion turns into fistfights, fire and fury, is it a sign that we have gone too far? What can Christians offer to better deal with differences and diversity?

Three "tells” of a potentially bad church.

Justin Welby suggests that Mammon has a powerful, persuasive hold over our imaginations. Whilst Mammon preaches an economy of exchange and equivalence, God’s economy is built around abundant grace.

A soft alarm wakes me – perfectly in sync with my circadian rhythms – and I trundle downstairs, set to face a new week. Alex notifies me of the weather, so the blinds remain closed.

The current zeitgeist says loud and clear; "the journey is the destination". Why are we even travelling? How are we trying to find who we are? Maybe the story is more important than the journey.

Epistemology simply means the 'theory of knowledge' – we could reduce it (simplistically) to know-how. Ontology is 'dealing with the nature of being'. But what if epistemology is the new ontology?

AI – or artificial intelligence – is defined as ‘an area of computer science that emphasises the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans’.

The theological framework for economic justice. According to God’s Word – he not only created the world, but he also orders it.

In the contemporary world, political ideas often develop into ideologies, or "isms", such as capitalism, liberalism, socialism or communism etc. The economy is often at the centre of these "isms".

Productive enterprises exist to serve others by providing goods and services, to enable human beings to exercise their calling to work productively, and to use resources wisely.

Putting too much weight on 'earning' as one of the purposes of work, the risk is to fail to hear God's calling for us. This pressure to earn precludes many possibilities of work for God's kingdom.

All wealth ultimately belongs to God – we are always stewards, never owners. The existence of poverty is the result of our individual and collective brokenness, not God’s failure to provide.

Lending and borrowing are key activities in any economic system. The Bible emphasises these transactions which demonstrates that they matter to God, and have been important throughout time.

Humans have been made with a purpose which includes work. Human life is valuable and one way it can be valued is through anticipated labour (expected productivity).

The command to love the neighbour, and humankind’s dominion over the created order: the relevance of higher-level Derived Social Principles.

The natural order is God’s good creation: it is abundant and fruitful. Looking at general principles behind the OT texts.