Kechi Ladapo

If we were a medical school, and you were here as a med student practicing appendectomies, you'd take your work very seriously because you would imagine that some night at 2 AM someone is going to waltz into your emergency room and you're going to have to save their life. Well, my friends, someday at 8 PM someone is going to walk into your concert

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Probing a text can be enjoyable but also tiring, even borderline painful. That’s good. Exhausting our mental faculties, such as through deep reading or effortful writing, is what makes them more potent. Physical exercise works the same way. AI, by contrast, promises knowledge without effort, just as many people see in GLP-1 drugs the possibility of

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Reading books has always been a political action, but good gracious, are we being reminded anew of the subversive act these days, eh? Libraries, writers, books, and freedom of thought are under attack or under suspicion or even simply ignored . We are being spooned amusements that require no thought, no engagement, no heart, only our constant... See more

We’ll likely find the things algorithms have told us to care about aren’t all that important.

We catechize because we must. For catechesis is both a very biblical idea and a faithful practice

of the church through the ages. Where wise catechesis has flourished, the church has flourished. Where it has been neglected, the church has floundered. We catechize in obedience to the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ and in imitation of the

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