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Are politicians the “product” of Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a significant role in politics today. Since 2006 as the 2008 election cycle started, the introduction of AI has proved to be the most disruptive technology innovation in political history, and it is just the beginning. Politicians current and many new and upcoming movements are embracing AI and machine learning and […]

November 25, 2022
My Book, YHWH’s Divine Images, Is Available Now

Originally posted on Daniel O. McClellan:
My open-access book, YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach, is available for download here. Hardcover and paperback editions are forthcoming. Because the volume is open-access, the PDF is freely downloadable and shareable. I hope those with an interest in the topic will enjoy the book, share it widely, and…

November 22, 2022
God, You’ve Got to be Kidding Me!

Originally posted on The Merton Prayer:
Whenever I have to go to a hospital for medical treatment, the admissions process always asks me what my “occupation is,” and I always do an internal walk into my distant past.? For six years in the 1980’s I was a Patient’s Rights Ombudsman at a major Chicago hospital.?…

November 16, 2022
Green Junction by Julie Peller, Ph.D. ~ Thinking about school buses.

According to the US EPA, “school buses travel about four billion miles yearly, providing the safest transportation to and from school for more than 25 million American children daily.” One problem with diesel-powered school buses is the toxic fumes that are emitted. Thanks to government mandates requiring cleaner diesel fuel and updated engine technologies, there […]

November 12, 2022
Green Junction: Have you ever thought about trees? by Julie Peller Ph.D.

The glorious colors of the trees in the fall are a reminder of nature’s beauty. Trees provide so much more than stunning foliage. Trees clean the air, filter water, control water drainage, sustain biodiversity, provide a home for animals, take in carbon dioxide, store carbon, and are a significant source of oxygen; and the list […]

October 29, 2022
The Technological Society – Thomas Merton

Originally posted on Pastor Michael Moore's Blog:
How can I help you with your work, daddy?! Gentle whistles of a bluebird and, in the mist, a SAC plane swoops huge and low over the ridges where Edelin’s valley is and where the final hermitages are to be. I wonder if it carries bombs. Most…

October 21, 2022
Green Junction: Thinking about Fashion. By Julie Peller Ph.D.

When goods and energy are subsidized, the price is not the real cost but a reduced and often harmfully artificial one. For example, synthetic fabrics known as nylon and polyester are made from subsidized fossil fuels. The artificially low price of these clothing and textile items leads to higher sales and shorter use times. The […]

October 16, 2022
Green Junction: “monsoons on steroids” by Julie Peller, Ph.D.

Over the past months, intensive and extensive flooding in Pakistan has been described as “monsoons on steroids” and “unprecedented.” The human toll at this point is near 1600 deaths, 11 million people driven further below poverty, and 33 million displaced. The country’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, described the connection to climate change. “Pakistan has never seen […]

October 8, 2022
It is time for Catholics “belly up to the bar.” Think Social Teachings!

The Catholic Church, which includes all the Rites East and West, must reinstll the heart of the gospel messages in Catholic Social Teachings. Have we become so comfortable with our wealth that we forget the Gospel message? Joseph Cardinal Cardijn’s thinking and message go back decades before Vatican II. Cardijn’s methods of See-Judge-Act are vital […]

October 3, 2022
Living Out Our Faith – A World Communion Sunday Reflection — Pastor Michael Moore’s Blog

The Communion Table at Presbyterian Community Church of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado in 2017. Denise created this beautiful offering for World Communion Sunday that year. This Sunday is both the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost and World Communion Sunday. In the Presbyterian Church (USA) the denomination receives a special offering called the “Peace and […] […]

October 2, 2022