This seems to be the question of the hour, and understandably so. Our culture finds the exclusion of women from any role to be a relic of the past, one of the last vestiges of an old order from which we have now wisely advanced.  So why are Southern Baptists stubbornly clinging to something so […]

Not All Sins Are Equal Scripture teaches that all sins are offensive to the Lord, but not all sins are equal. Jesus highlighted this as he stood before Pilate: “He who delivered me over to you has the greater sin” (John 19:11). There, Jesus explained the sin of the Jewish leaders was greater than Pilate’s […]

Being a trained data scientist, I have taken an interest in the development of AI since GPT4, specifically, deep learning large language models (LLMs). Modern LLMs pass the Turing Test, and there are debates over whether LLMs possess a degree of self-awareness. Initially, I was interested in the discussions of science fiction-sounding words like “meta-cognition.” […]

“Why, God?” Not far from my present location is North Korea, a place of torment and death for Christians. Even closer is China, a land where faithful Christians are harassed and jailed with impunity. Both once fell under the shadow of the Japanese Empire, in which realm Christians were imprisoned and tortured for many years. […]