Mark Coppenger

Mark Coppenger is a retired professor of Christian philosophy and ethics at SBTS. He’s also served as a pastor and an military officer. He writes at markcoppenger.com.

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The Pastor and WWAID (What Would AI Do?)

This past school year, I’ve run into Artificial Intelligence (AI) talk and text at every turn (including last night’s viewing of the new Mission Impossible, with its phantasmagorical, cyber “Entity” hell bent on devouring civilization). I’m just back from a year of fill-in, philosophy teaching at New Saint Andrews College way up in Panhandle, Idaho. […]

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Body-Life Music

Every church has an aesthetic, a conglomeration of impacts on the senses, whether visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, or tactual. To be oblivious to these forces is to be under an anesthetic. Of course, the aesthetic is far from purely sensible; it’s laden with associations and signals which appeal to or repel the mind and heart.

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Mark Coppenger On Manliness

Uncover the core of biblical manliness, reclaim true Christian masculinity, and embrace God's blueprint for our lives.

Mark Coppenger