by Ted Peters | Dec 11, 2019 | Features
Watching a seated cat ride across the living room carpet on top of a Roomba is cute because the cat is cute; not because the vacuum cleaner is intelligent. Much of what we call artificial intelligence (AI) or machine intelligence is so common that it prompts at best...
by George L. Murphy | Nov 7, 2019 | Features
Photo by Bobby Johnson via Unsplash Stephen Hawking wrote that if we can answer the question of why we and the universe exist, “it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God.”1 Others at the frontiers of physics have used...
by George L. Murphy | Oct 17, 2019 | Features
Photo by Aaron Burden via Unsplash (Editor’s note: A version of this article, “Bearing Witness with the Lutheran Alliance on Faith, Science and Technology,” originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of Lutheran Forum) Beginning to address the challenge In 1987, the...
by Susan Barreto | Sep 9, 2019 | Features
Photo by Sylwia Pietruszka via Unsplash [Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series on technology and the church. In this article we look at how social media is rewriting the rules of communication and community online. Next month we will dive into the...
by George L. Murphy | Jul 12, 2019 | Features
Monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in Turun, Poland. Photo by Jason Riedy, [CC BY-NC 2.0] via Flickr This spring (May 24) the church once again honored the memories of Nicolaus Copernicus and Leonhard Euler. That may provoke readers to wonder several things, such...
by Susan Barreto | Jun 7, 2019 | Features
Photo collage by Sergio Barreto; photos by Matthew Feeney and Lance Anderson on Unsplah It may have been a chance encounter between neighbors that sparked the creation of the Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church. Lutheran Church in America...
