In case you missed it, this past December, Australia made history in a way we’re genuinely enthusiastic about. For the first time anywhere in the world, a nation set a real, enforceable  age limit for social media: no accounts for anyone under 16 . That means platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Threads, and others must verify age and deactivate underage accounts or face significant fines. Australian officials have said that nearly five million accounts  were...

AI chatbots and other Large Language Model (LLM) tools are everywhere - and for good reason! Authors and business bigwigs alike have professed an adopt-or-die rhetoric that has put some serious pressure on leaders in virtually every line of work to integrate AI, lest they ‘fall behind’. It’s an enticing proposition - low cost, instant results, and it’s improving at a staggering rate. You might be surprised to hear that even though ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs can be extremely...

AI and its relationship to the church is a hot topic - one that sparks strong opinions in every direction.  For some, AI is simply the next iteration of tools we’ve always used: scrolls, books, Google. It’s society’s newest and most efficient way to gather and distribute information. For others, it represents something far more troubling: a machine “playing God,” Silicon Valley’s most ambitious attempt to erase not only our need for God, but even our need for one another. While I don’t...