Ideas I want to write about
There’s no question that David Platt’s book Radical is one of the most misleading and destructive books put out by an evangelical leader in the last 20 years. There’s a lot of competition in that space, sadly, but Platt rises towards the top because his book was so widely read and even applied by people who didn’t know better. People didn’t just re... See more
The reach of this idea.
Connect to the Algorithms as Idolatry piece.
Write about the focus on uncertainty as the opposite of certitude in evangelicalism, and yet Progressive Christians are just as incapable as Conservative ones of continuing a journey with an unpredictable God.
“After 9/11, people were afraid that we were going to live in an America where the local grocery stores were constantly getting bombed and we had to fight the terrorists in the streets, where nothing would ever be the same. They were afraid, but there was such yearning in that fear. I think AI hype comes from the same place.”
— Freddie DeBoer on Sub
... See moreWhat yearning is there behind our fears today? Yearning for significance? Yearning to change the world?
Just a moment...
scitechdaily.com“ We have a progressive movement that seems to kick down every societal boundary that’s been built over the years, and then demands we put our own back up—and defend them alone.” — Freya India in an interview with N.S. Lyons https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/the-self-and-the-soul-a-dialogue?r=bfch&utm_medium=ios