Much-revered Mahatma Gandhi reminded Christian missionaries that "a life of service and uttermost simplicity is the best preaching" to people living in this part of the world.
Our casual use of this artificial intelligence technology for "religious art" is unjustifiable. What will we tell our children, that we worsened labor and environmental conditions for ugly, uncanny images?
As a Catholic philosopher and avid student of Aquinas, I am always fielding questions about whether this medieval saint is "still worth" reading today, nearly 800 years after his birth.
Even with substantial consensus on many issues, the perception of polarization often drives public discourse. This misalignment can be exacerbated by partisans with something to gain.
"The Scripture readings at the end of the liturgical year are the biblical equivalent of dystopian science fiction," writes Fr. Thomas Reese. Those ideas "can lead us to despair, to give up and do nothing."