The Christian faith is a both/and matter. It is neither spiritual to the detriment of the physical (as Gnostics, and as, to a lesser extent, sacramentarian Evangelicals confess), nor is it material to the detriment of the spiritual (as atheists and rationalists confess).

I often hear advocates of “contemporary worship” (CoWo) make the claim that they are liturgical - they just use “modern instruments” instead of the pipe organ. And so, I have been on a hunt to find this elusive unicorn…

This old fogey has the gravest misgivings about the much-trumpeted phenomenon known as Artificial Intelligence, of whose origin, mechanics, and aims he is woefully ignorant. I find it troubling to receive a message from gmail which provides the wording for a suggested reply. As a retired professor, I wonder whether students are already submitting passing essays by such means. If this be the case, so help us …