Tag: Faith

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podcast

Don Barger
Date
July 1, 2026

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Don Barger, Faith, global missions, global outreach, llm, oral culture, oral tradition, orality, religion, Robert J. Marks, storytelling}

Beyond the Written Word: AI’s Role in Reaching Oral Cultures

_{Don Barger
July 1, 2026

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AI is having impact everywhere. But what about global outreach initiatives? And specifically Christian missions? How are those in the mission field using artificial intelligence? On this episode of Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks and co-host Jonathan Swindell welcome Dr. Don Barger to the show. Barger is the Director of Innovation and Artificial Intelligence at the International Mission Board. Don works with new technology, especially AI, and helps people use it in smart and responsible ways. He thinks a lot about how AI can help in real-life situations, especially in global missions. He also understands the limits of AI and what it cannot do. In this conversation, we’ll discuss how AI is changing the world, how AI should be used responsibly in global outreach initiatives to other cultures and peoples, and what it all means for the future.

David Foster Wallace’s American Dream

_{We don’t need a grand revolution to achieve something meaningful — living a compassionate life is as American as it gets.} _{Alex Rosado
November 19, 2024

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Arts & Culture}

In 2005, writer David Foster Wallace captured the ethos of a fragile America while talking to college students. The speech warrants rereading today, given the current state of free speech and thought on college campuses nationwide. Wallace delivered This is Water as a commencement speech to Kenyon College seniors seeking to inspire the next generation of thinkers, builders, and servers. It tackled cynicism and forgiveness through simple examples, like swimming fish. Yet, its enduring spirit lies in how perfectly Wallace addresses the American identity crisis. In his words, “the really significant education… isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.” Wallace’s advice is a rebuke against selfishness. The ability to think is useless if you refuse to learn Read More ›

Aerial cityscape view of San Francisco and the Bay Bridge at Night

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post

Peter Biles
Date
August 27, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Faith, god, reason, religion, science, Silicon Valley, soul, Wired}

Silicon Valley is All About Use, Not Truth

_{Of Athens, Jerusalem, and the "third city"} _{Peter Biles
August 27, 2023

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Technology}

We could see Birgis’s brilliant article as a call to hold technological innovation in healthy conversation with common sense and moral values.

How Do I Know If I Am Living in a Digital Ghetto?

_{AI-enabled tools can help to achieve the objectives of those motivated to create anger, fear, isolationism, or bigotry by manipulating our attention} _{Stephen Berger
December 31, 2021

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Relationships, Social Media}

I have recently been enjoying the PBS documentary on the history of New York City, part of the “An American Experience” series. With that in the back of my mind, I read design theorist William Dembski’s thought-provoking article, “How Does Worldview Differ from Cultural Environment?” I found myself contemplating various aspects of his argument and in this article, I would like to present some thoughts, using this statement as a launching point: When I taught apologetics at seminary, I would stress to my students that in doing apologetics, they needed to get out of the ghetto. Some seem to think that there is a Christian community in which one can isolate oneself. Beyond this Christian community there is a secular Read More ›

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post

Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón
Date
January 5, 2020

Categorized
Mathematics

Tagged
___longform, Apologetics, David Hilbert, Faith, Featured, Kurt Gödel, Modernity, Philosophy}

Faith Is the Most Fundamental of the Mathematical Tools

_{An early twentieth century clash of giants showed that even mathematics depends on some unprovable assumptions} _{Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón
January 5, 2020

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Mathematics}

David Hilbert wanted all mathematics to be proved by logical steps. Kurt Gödel showed that no axiomatic system could be complete and consistent at the same time.