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Bill Walker retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Bill Walker retweeted
The college crisis is a crisis of meaning; colleges have forgotten why they exist. Turning small, liberal arts colleges into career-readiness institutions with bloated sports programs has nothing to do with the value of the liberal arts as understood historically.
Bill Walker retweeted
Jonathan Haidt needs to win a big prize of some sort. WOW!!! – at Grand Rapids, MI
-Left: a recent NYT Instagram post
-Right: a paragraph from @JonHaidt’s latest book describing the problem with posts just like this
Bill Walker retweeted
My latest piece: "Inasmuch as MacArthur rejects or even obstructs the American church’s efforts to repent of injustice, imitate Christ, and heal our country’s racism, sexism, and economic inequalities, he will only find himself fighting against God."
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Bill Walker retweeted
Profound statement I heard from a church planter recently:
"...I thought if I mixed together my favorite liturgical, pentecostal, missional, and theological sensibilities it would be a church everyone loved, instead it's a church that no-one is really happy with."
Bill Walker retweeted
Students from the @BradleyCenterVT, @gkchouse and @HillHouseUT attended The Salisbury Seminar at @SarumCollege in Salisbury, England. Hill House Exec. Dir. @BwalkerIII led the formational program covering the role of Christians in engaging with the challenges of globalization.
Bill Walker retweeted
“God has the freshest and keenest memory of the least and most forgotten.”
—Bartolomé de Las Casas
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In Opinion
“We should judge a nation by a simple metric: the number of weeping parents it allows, the small caskets it tolerates,” @esaumccaulley writes in a guest essay. nyti.ms/3zcrzx6
Bill Walker retweeted
On this feast day of Saint Oscar Romero, let's listen to him:
"This is the mission entrusted to the church,
a hard mission:
to uproot sins from history,
to uproot sins
from the political order,
to uproot sins from the economy,
to uproot sins wherever they are..."
Bill Walker retweeted
When toxic, antiracism not only delays freedom but militates against it. That much needed to be said & likely could only be shown. VL did both. The ensuing deflections on the one side & appropriations on the other help make his point. Is power involved? Sure. But when is it not?
Bill Walker retweeted
ICYMI | "Seminaries in the Crucible" series from @kyuboem was published this week —easily some of the best conversations and questions around education and practice right now. buff.ly/3WSKnLq
Bill Walker retweeted
You may have heard of “The Body Keeps the Score” by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. It’s constantly recommended as the seminal work on trauma. No doubt it’s a valuable and important book.
But a few things to know:
Bill Walker retweeted
I've spent a fair amount of time the last few years talking with parents, teachers, etc., about technology. While I always insist that the issue starts and ends with "us," not "kids these days," people always want to talk about kids.
Bill Walker retweeted
Christopher Columbus on American indigenous folks: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them… With fifty men, we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
Yeah, you don’t need a day to celebrate you.
Bill Walker retweeted
If you've heard me preach on immigration anytime in the last 7 years, you've probably heard me open with a troubling statistic: just 12% of evangelicals say they think about immigration primarily from a biblical perspective
Today, I have good news: that's no longer true [thread]
Bill Walker retweeted
I do not believe ... that school should start until the day after Labour Day. #QuitRushingThings 😡