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Online trads be like:
HENRY VIII'S DIVORCE led to THE ENGLISH REFORMATION which led to INDIVIDUALISM which led to LIBERALISM which led to DATING APPS which led to MY MATCH SAYING "I'M NOT REALLYLOOKING FOR ANYTHING SERIOUS" and therefore HINGE IS A HENRICIAN THEOLOGICAL PROJECT
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your homunculus will never be ensouled bro, stop showing the pope your homonculus, he doesn't like it
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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“God is the third rail of rock and roll.”
Reflecting on faith, honesty, and choosing to talk openly about God in music.
Full conversation on The Magnificent Others with this week’s guest Michael Sweet of Stryper.
It’s probably a side effect of ageing but I wondered today why so many Main Event locations in life seem like back-stage. Schools and classrooms. Hospitals and waiting rooms. Workplaces and supermarkets. Ugly spaces where we do the vast majority of our living.
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A tremendously encouraging service before the @marchforlifeuk today - +Horsham preached on the incarnation of Jesus and its implications for human dignity, Fr Tom celebrated holy communion, and +Bradwell sent us away with an episcopal blessing. Then... off to the march!
How can Vocations processes work well with an Augustine? A wild life, a fierce intellect, and a convert at the other end of youth. It seems likely that a new generation of Priests will come from our “quiet revival” and that might mean ppl who know a lot but are recently baptised.
It was foul, and I loved it. I loved my own undoing. I loved my error–not that for which I erred but the error itself. A depraved soul, falling away from security in thee to destruction in itself, seeking nothing from the shameful deed but shame itself. - Augustine on pears
Old doorbells: Push a button and a chimer chimes
New doorbells: Push a button and a few seconds later maybe a camera feed starts and a notification pops up on someone's phone, but only if everything is correctly logged in, charged, and the wifi is working.
If you were Evangelical in your 20s were you ever invited out to lunch on a semi-regular basis by an ambiguously qualified “leader” who was just some guy with an executive salary who thought he should be a “mentor”?
































