The Luddites weren’t Luddites as many modern people conceive of Luddism.
Keith Plummer
@xianmind.bsky.social
Christ-follower, husband, father, teacher. Interests: theology, apologetics, technology, and counseling. A generalist in a specialist's world.
"I want to give my attention to words formed in another human soul, a being made in the image of God. And as an author, editor, and publisher, I want to promote only the work of human writers." I wholeheartedly commend the drawing of this line. www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/ai-t...
Our Line in the Sand on AI: TGC’s Missional Opportunity
TGC articles are human-made, human-edited, human-assessed, made in human community for other humans—as an act of love, fellowship, and worship.
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“The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling—an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. (Gift Article)
It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.
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Good thoughts here from @oalannoble.bsky.social about the reality of agency contra the incessant narrative of AI inevitability and communal measures to buffer ourselves against AI’s adverse effects open.substack.com/pub/oalannob...
How to Not Be Overwhelmed By AI News
Having hope in a wide open future
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"And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid…And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.” (Mark 5:15, 17) When we've acclimated to brokenness, wholeness can be dreadful.
“We’re going to have to equip a younger cohort not given to discussion, face to face disagreement, or even verbal social cohesion, to open their mouths & talk.” Mentoring people in how to have conversations is becoming a vital component of Christian discipleship. open.substack.com/pub/stephenm...
Words Are Very Unnecessary
Why we're not talking as much as we used to (and why that's a problem)
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Some people have never met a silence they didn’t want to kill.
An admirable approach to ministry from @gravleyaustin.bsky.social. May more churches follow suit, and not just with respect to youth. open.substack.com/pub/mereorth...
How a Google Voice Number Transformed My Youth Ministry
by Austin Gravley
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Coming up: Aug: Gary Schnittjer on 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 Sept: @oalannoble.bsky.social on 𝘛𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭: 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 Oct: @bonniekristian.bsky.social on 𝘐𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘈 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘐𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴
Affirming the sufficiency of Scripture while not clarifying what it is sufficient 𝘧𝘰𝘳 is commonly done.
“AIs may not yet be creating robots to control us, but they are already controlling us in ways few people realize. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Co-pilot, etc., are thought factories slowly working away on us, lulling us into intellectual passivity.” open.substack.com/pub/robinmar...
The Coming AI Takeover, and the Quiet Conquest of the Human Brain
Last week, Wired Magazine reported that an unreleased AI model went rogue, exploiting an unknown flaw to break out of its training environment, thus gaining access to the internet.
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This article in the Media, Culture & Society journal looks interesting.
Excellent essay by @andrewnoble.bsky.social about why it’s not enough to merely assess the content of chatbots. Yes, we must evaluate what they are telling us, but we must likewise discern how they are forming us. mereorthodoxy.com/how-ai-calcu...
How AI Calculators Become Our Companions
The advice to "use AI like a tool, not a person," is insufficient. The very nature of the product is personal because the medium is personified. And as the latest friendship statistics keep repeating:...
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“This is one of the most dangerous—and most easily overlooked—flaws in AI-driven counseling conversations: It tends to follow the conclusions the questioner has already presupposed.” www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/trea...
Don’t Treat AI as Your Pastor
AI always has a kind, commonsense answer for us. Why can’t we ask it about our spiritual lives?
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Integrity involves having the courage to accurately critique views you believe to be faulty, the honesty to represent them accurately, and the humility to acknowledge their strengths where they exist.
“And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, w/ their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise & to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch.” (Neh 12:24) At no hour is praise unfitting.
Here’s a nice summary from @adrianwarnock.substack.com of our recent conversation about John Newton. We’re on a trans-Atlantic mission to get more Christians to read more Newton. www.patheos.com/blogs/adrian...
"As I Read John Newton, He Reminds Me That I Need Christ."
What makes a person read an entire multi volume edition of a 300 year-old preacher's published works? Keith Pummer kept reading because Newton kept
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A growing number of Christians in their 20s and 30s are bringing their questions about Scripture, spiritual struggles, and life decisions to generative AI before they bring them to a pastor or church elder.” www.christiandaily.com/news/young-c...
Young Christians find AI easier to talk to than humans — and that is a problem, pastors say
A growing number of Christians in their 20s and 30s are bringing their questions about Scripture, spiritual struggles, and life decisions to generative AI before they bring them to a pastor or church ...
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Ordering a book to be sent to someone and composing a message of only so many characters to accompany it is expedient and sometimes necessary. But it separates the message from the book whereas a personal inscription becomes a permanent part of it, adding value. Media matter.
“But [Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’” (Mark 4:38 ESV) When you ask the Lord a question, thinking you already know the answer
Conversing with a brother who shares my gratitude for John Newton and the desire to introduce more Christians to his life and work, was a pleasure. Thanks to @adrianwarnock.substack.com for the invitation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMhB...
John Newton helps us better know our hearts and the One who alone can heal them
YouTube video by Adrian Warnock
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My heart was gladdened and encouraged by meeting with a teacher at a Christian high school yesterday who’s piloting a class on media stewardship in the fall. More of this!
"To practice the virtue of love in the contemporary world means fighting to keep your attention focused on what is worthy of your love." @oalannoble.bsky.social, 𝘛𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭
Frequently, when typing a passage from a book, focused on it, not the keyboard, I'm amazed by how such a thing is possible (and extremely grateful that my mother taught me how to type).
Had a great time recording an upcoming episode with my good friend and colleague, Dr. Gary Schnittjer, discussing his latest book.
Sol Rashidi, the world’s first chief AI officer, on the threat of intellectual atrophy, “the slow, sneaky, silent erosion of our ability to think deeply, think critically, and think independently.” youtu.be/UQSG41UD7jM?...
How to Stand Out in an AI World by Thinking Better, Not Faster | Sol Rashidi | TEDxStanford
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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“…the students in front of me aren’t underprepared by admissions standards; they’re underprepared by a K-12 system that has quietly stopped asking them to finish books at all.” Hardly a day goes by that I don’t think about what this professor describes. fortune.com/2026/07/26/w...
I've been teaching college students for decades. Most of them can no longer finish a book | Fortune
I assume students will do the reading of long, dense texts, week after week. Lately, that assumption has started to feel naive.
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Instead of spending $58,000 on humanoid robots, the value of which is dubious at best, why not pay human teachers more and let them really teach? The educators’ union president rightly calls this a “thoughtless expansion of tech in the classroom.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/n...
Sally the Robot Was Coming to a New York School. Then the Plug Was Pulled. (Gift Article)
Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage.
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