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Some Questions I Have About AI

Some Questions I Have About AI

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These are some reflections after a panel discussion on AI that happened at the college where I work. The panel was made up of about 8 students and faculty. It turned out to be mostly one-sided with most folks on the panel and in the audience being anti-AI. Those who

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The Widow as Unsettling Force - Luke 18 Commentary

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I was asked to write for the Political Theology website for the upcoming lectionary reading, Luke 18:1-8. This parable is well-known sometimes thought of as "the persistent widow and corrupt judge." My reading takes it in a different direction. Like all of Jesus' parables, this one

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Who Gave Us Guilford College?

Who Gave Us Guilford College?

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Dear readers, this is an essay I have been working on in my role as the Director Friends Center at Guilford College. Some of you may know I have worked at Guilford for 10 years now in both a staff and faculty role, teaching Quaker studies and leading our office

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Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here?

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2025-04-05 Presented during the 400th Anniversary Review of Fox's birthday Context: I was asked to offer a playful, imaginative presentation as a last thought for our day long conference looking at George Fox's 400th birthday (last year) and what was learned from those events and where

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George Fox at 400 Conference

George Fox at 400 Conference

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For the Quakers reading this blog and those interested in Quaker studies, this Saturday (Saturday 5 April 2025 - 13:30-21:00 (UK time)) there's a really great online mini-conference put on by Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre looking at the Quaker tradition at Fox's 400th birthday

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10 Rules to Diffuse AI Bro Arguments

Just got a wonderful zine in the mail yesterday from Power Tools of AI by Bart Fish: Power Tools of AIPower Tools is an art series focused on critiquing AI toolmen and genAI. Featuring zines, a newsletter and AI critical resources. On the cover they off these 10 rules worth sharing here (given my

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Meanwhile...Back on the Fediverse

Meanwhile...Back on the Fediverse

I worked with a friend only to develop a guide for introducing platforms like Mastadon for Quakers who are looking for an alternative to Twitter/Facebook/Instagram. See that guide below or find it online here: https://friendsonthefediverse.com

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Gathering In Light Redesign

Gathering In Light Redesign

I've been working on the redesigned of the site over the last few weeks using Claude Code. I have always enjoyed working on website designs, and have a number of favorite custom designs in the history of Gathering in Light.

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Updating My Tools

Updating My Tools

This morning, after listening to the most recent episode of the Pen Addict, I was inspired to create an "analog defaults" page with the pens and notebooks I use everyday.

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Story Boarding Fiction

Story Boarding Fiction

Some of what I have been doing in my morning writing and research time is trying my hand at a dystopian short story about AI going to a Quaker meeting. I hope to share that here sometime soon, once I find myself out of the editing phase.

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Scenes from an Igloo (Class)

Scenes from an Igloo (Class)

As I mentioned earlier, I built a homemade igloo this weekend with my kids. As a result of all this snow we’re getting here in North Carolina, we had a remote day today at the college where I teach. With having classes today, I knew I had Zoom on the docket for today.

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Coming to PNW this March

I’m visiting PNW Quakers putting March (7-8) for three "talks." The first is a workshop I'm offering at the Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends Quarterly Meeting in Camas, WA (Camas Friends Church). Here’s the working title and description: Endless Revolution - The Lamb’s War a

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Looking for Privacy Focused Blogging Platforms

Looking for Privacy Focused Blogging Platforms

My beloved WordPress is becoming more and more corporate and finding more and more ways to tie data-tracking and AI into their product. I’ve used the self-hosted WordPress install for most of my blog’s existence, but even this version of the platform is showing signs of data-mining, namely the many

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