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Why is praying for our nation important?

Why is praying for our nation important?

How might the Bible and the Church inform the United States government to respond to immigration? First, the Church must offer an alternative to the state.

As we move toward 2024, I began to think about how I could set a New Year’s resolution that I could realistically keep. I came up with a few tips.

Incarnation won’t be achieved by chasing liberty (liberalism) or seeking to overcome our own biology (transhumanism), but by embracing Christ by faith and committing to follow Him by humbling ourselves as we point to and magnify the Triune God.

There is not and will never be a better strategy for dealing with the difficulties we face in the broken world than obedience.

“By thoughtfully, carefully, and yet boldly applying technology to ourselves, we can become something no longer accurately described as human — we can become posthuman … Posthuman beings would no longer suffer from disease, aging, and inevitable death (but they are likely to face other challenges).”

As we consider what it means to be human in the age of AI, it may be helpful to alter this parable in a way that illustrates the distance AI can create between people.

While diversity, equity and inclusion programs have many problems, one glaring difficulty lies in the telos, or final aim, of such programs. If, for instance, inclusion is confused with unconditional acceptance, we will likely lose the ability to call others to repentance.

We need to consider how our use of social media and other technology platforms is detaching us from reality, particularly as deep fakes, misinformation, rigged photo shoots, and filters become more and more the norm.