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“AI pantomimes the real, caricatures the soul, and offers a poor replacement for the care that women stake off as their own, claim as our birthright.” Rachel Roth Aldhizer on the presence of women in a world of artificial intelligence. bit.ly/4uIlDGJ

“Our primary concern was parenting, not policy, but I felt like I was having to block my daughter from running down a very dark road the government was trying to clear for her.” W.R. Thomsen on why the personal is political. bit.ly/4wv87In

🌟Cover Reveal!🌟 Can Religion Save Democracy?: How More Faith--Not Less--Can Heal Our Public Life by @matthewkaemingk and @shadihamid This book argues that if American democracy is going to survive, it will require more religion, not less. Get 40% off: bakerbookhouse.com/products/97815…

If you want to learn more about @matthewkaemingk and @shadihamid's new book coming this fall, listen to this podcast episode from @commentmag!

The "spiritual, but not religious" crowd takes it on the chin in this episode. @commentmag @shadihamid comment.org/podcasts/why-d…

Is organized religion vital to the health of democratic life? And how is it different from “spiritual but not religious”? @matthewkaemingk and @shadihamid take up a central argument from their new book. bit.ly/4d9Dhxi

"AI is apocalyptic in exactly one narrow sense: It is not causing but rather disclosing the end of a world." - L.M. Sacasas comment.org/ai-as-christia…

Since men playing video games are in the discourse again, here's my take from last year: "A retreat into a fantasy world is fine as long as it is brief and temporary, but the more time you spend on Pleasure Island, the more you turn into a donkey." comment.org/for-the-love-o…

“The alphabet became more than a practical tool. It bound together religion, language, and identity in ways that endure to this day.” @ArtAghajanian on Armenian letters as a threshold for participating in the sacred. bit.ly/4usst3c

What does it look like for American Muslim communities to engage in political life? @omarsuleiman joins Zealots at the Gate to talk political participation, assimilation, and what it means to be Muslim and American. bit.ly/3PqnyRq

“When we cross borders—places that remind us of divisions, separations—why is it that we find connection at tables, “at board,” as we once said?” Joy Moore on the ark of an American-Ukrainian friendship. comment.org/dreaming-the-d…

Everything Sara Hendren writes is worth your time, but this meditation on design and virtues covers everything from foundling boxes to dementia villages and thinks hard about how to make our ideals more practical. comment.org/pattern-recogn…

Here's a great essay by Meghan Sullivan that I just discovered: comment.org/what-is-the-un…

“Varley paints Christ’s descent deeper into creation in order to transform it, while Harris’s painting, which recalls the lingam of a Hindu temple, marks the first step of an escape.” comment.org/toronto-the-ho…

This is an incredible example of "to the peripheries!" "On Sunday mornings, underneath the enormous concrete bridge that takes Interstate 35 over South 4th Street, a congregation gathers in an open-air shelter created by the bridge’s underbelly" comment.org/pattern-recogn…

That narrative of elusive satisfaction isn’t just something we’re repeatedly being told; it is a story we’re literally buying into all the time. comment.org/repair-and-rem…

“Whereas Europe may have developed the new painterly styles we name Impressionism or Post-Impressionism, North America boasted landscapes especially worthy of these new techniques, summoning creation to disclose her secrets.” bit.ly/4dclZ2s

“The only way to defeat dominionism is to strengthen a theology of imago Dei that draws the public away from the dangerous desire to consider oneself elected over an enemy deserving domination.” comment.org/written-on-our…

We got him to read "Mere Christianity" @shadihamid @commentmag comment.org/podcasts/a-mus…

Jesus Saves. Does He Invest? My latest at @commentmag comment.org/jesus-saves-do…