if your religion is a living one, it will produce lots of kitsch, because it's not just practiced by saints or monks or very online ideologues, but by grandmas, truckers, janitors, etc if all the buildings are pretty and all the art is high art, it's a museum exhibit, sorry

The European #AIAct enters into force today, but can it address underlying moral issues? 💻🧵

Maybe it’s to do with being the running mate of a pathological liar, serial adulterer, vacuous man, who is a clear danger to democracy? Just a thought

Here's a great metaphor for what happened when kids suddenly got smartphones, from economist Michael Munger: It's like giving kids a magic food bag with always-fresh junk food, hanging from their necks aier.org/article/free-k…

Christian Nationalism is what happens when Christians believe they should be the flour of the world ... rather than the salt.

"I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. And in that also I saw the infinite love of God." George Fox, 1647.

May we never grow tired of truth and its pursuit, however costly that may be.

You heard it said: “We are in the Anthropocene.” But I say unto you: “We are in the Capitalocene.”

“Many anticipated AI applications seem predicated on the idea that…we want to consume the shape and form of conversation, consume simulations of speaking and listening without having to risk direct engagement with other people.” Rob Horning

Productivity seems so obviously important that we omit to ask why (or whether) that is the case. By assessing current and historic examples, Nick Spencer Hannah Rich and Nathan Mladin unpack where 'greater productivity' has both helped and harmed people across society.

AI will make us more productive❗️ Or will it❓ And if it does, should we celebrate👏❓ TBD - to be discussed... ...which is exactly what we do in this 👇, our new report🔖.

Delighted to join as an Associate of the AI Faith & Civil Society Commission, doing my part to help us draw out the possibilities of AI for human flourishing while pushing back on exploitation in all its forms. Theos Think Tank

Will being more productive improve your life? 🤔 Nick Spencer, Hannah Rich, and Nathan Mladin question the unexamined idea of productivity in our new report, ‘More: The Problem with Productivity’. Find out more here: bit.ly/4gjupVq

Imagine 'evangelicals' voting for an anti-Christ. O wait, you don't have to imagine...

“The crisis of modernity is that man has tried to reduce the field of reason to what can be empirically verified. By doing so, the deeper questions of human existence are left unanswered.” ~ Joseph Ratzinger (Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures)

We've got a new report out - we're questioning the obsession with productivity, both at the societal/economic and at the personal levels. Have a look!

Post-away day pub with the excellent Theos Think Tank team after a day of intense thinking about religion and public life, as well as a bring and share lunch featuring Theos-branded sourdough & babka from resident foodie Nathan Mladin #WorkHardEatHard Looking forward to day 2 🙌🏾

Not a huge surprise here, but the undercutting of serious moral deliberation around such a complex, contested issue is truly reprehensible.