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Gospel Enquiry: At What Cost?
From time to time, the Sunday Gospels throw up a passage which is somewhat troubling to read.
Jun 27 • Paul Lentern
Two Western Minds, One Eastern Path: Merton and Thurman on Buddhism
A Third Voice: Joseph Cardijn and the See-Judge-Act Method
Jun 26 • Richard Pütz
The Algorithm and the Overlooked: How AI Deepens Old Inequalities
What Adler, McLuhan, and Merton would say about the machine we’ve built — and who it’s really for
Jun 25 • Richard Pütz
What a Forgotten Philosopher Can Teach Us About the Limits of AI: Meet Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) doesn’t come up much at the dinner table.
Jun 23 • Richard Pütz
“Be not afraid. I go before you always.”
A Gospel Enquiry
Jun 21 • Pat Branson
When Silence Becomes Resistance: Byung-Chul Han and Thomas Merton in Conversation
Using the See-Judge-Act Method
Jun 18 • Richard Pütz
Who Is AI Actually For? What Mortimer Adler Would Ask the Tech Industry
Who Is AI Actually For?
Jun 16 • Richard Pütz
Waking Up To What Is
This past week, I gave a lunch talk to a group of interdenominational people aged 55 and older, one of those potluck lunches I have found to be popular…
Jun 14 • Richard Pütz
Gospel Enquiry: Called and Commissoned
This Gospel text begins with an expression of Jesus’ compassion for the people in their suffering.
Jun 13 • Paul Lentern
The Machine Doesn’t Have the Last Word: Rahner, Merton, and the Soul of Artificial Intelligence
*A See–Judge–Act Reflection on* Magnifica Humanitas
Jun 11 • Richard Pütz
Flourishing, Not Just Functioning
What Aristotle's Eudaimonia can teach us about living well in an age of autonomous technology.
Jun 9 • Richard Pütz
The Real Presence
A Gospel Enquiry
Jun 7 • Pat Branson
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