James Spencer

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  Apr 9, 2024

  Evangelicals and immigration: Church and state have different roles

  How might the Bible and the Church inform the United States government to respond to immigration? First, the Church must offer an alternative to the state.

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  Dec 29, 2023

  Approaching New Year’s resolutions

  As we move toward 2024, I began to think about how I could set a New Year’s resolution that I could realistically keep. I came up with a few tips.

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  Dec 15, 2023

  'The Matrix,' transhumanism and Christ's incarnation

  Incarnation won’t be achieved by chasing liberty (liberalism) or seeking to overcome our own biology (transhumanism), but by embracing Christ by faith and committing to follow Him by humbling ourselves as we point to and magnify the Triune God.

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  Oct 31, 2023

  Reframing pragmatism: Why obedience is the best choice

  There is not and will never be a better strategy for dealing with the difficulties we face in the broken world than obedience.

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  Sep 24, 2023

  How should Christians think about transhumanism?

  “By thoughtfully, carefully, and yet boldly applying technology to ourselves, we can become something no longer accurately described as human — we can become posthuman … Posthuman beings would no longer suffer from disease, aging, and inevitable death (but they are likely to face other challenges).”

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  Sep 9, 2023

  Text with Jesus app: AI deities trivializing Jesus (and Satan)

  Texting with Jesus is not a good thing for at least a couple of reasons.

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  Jul 5, 2023

  Who is our ‘neighbor’ in an AI-enabled world?

  As we consider what it means to be human in the age of AI, it may be helpful to alter this parable in a way that illustrates the distance AI can create between people.

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  Jun 9, 2023

  How inclusivity affects the Church and repentance

  While diversity, equity and inclusion programs have many problems, one glaring difficulty lies in the telos, or final aim, of such programs. If, for instance, inclusion is confused with unconditional acceptance, we will likely lose the ability to call others to repentance.

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  Jun 3, 2023

  Social media: For the good or the doom of society?

  We need to consider how our use of social media and other technology platforms is detaching us from reality, particularly as deep fakes, misinformation, rigged photo shoots, and filters become more and more the norm.

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  Feb 21, 2023

  Is the Church being 'out-coordinated' by the world on discipleship?

  When it comes to discipleship, however, the Church has been and continues to be at risk of being “out-coordinated” by the world.