HeyJaredAnd another thing ..., by Jonathan Clark
Pictures, poems, provocations. And things I didn't think I could say when I was younger
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The fruit of the Spirit and Christian ministry: love (opens the original)
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We have been working our way back up to the fountainhead of the fruit of the Spirit. What do I say now? Everything or nothing, perhaps – Love is so all-encompassing a term that I could write endlessly and still only have scratched the surface. Continuing our trajectory, let’s start again with Christopher Tuckett, who reminds us of the distinctiveness of the Christian usage of ἀγάπη (agape):The noun does not occur in Greek classical writers. Greek words for love were φ
The fruit of the Spirit and Christian ministry: joy (opens the original)
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Our house is surrounded by fields. At some point in spring, depending on how the grass is growing and the calving has gone, a local farmer will arrive with a trailer load of cattle. They’ve been in the byre all through the winter, so they’re all pleased enough to be out again and eating fresh grass. But the calves are overwhelmed – all they’ve known up to now was the darkness of the barn, and suddenly there’s light, and space, and birds to chase. The other week I was watching one run round and r
The fruit of the Spirit and Christian ministry: peace (opens the original)
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If we are going to think about peace at all, we must start with Jesus. While all the attributes of the Spirit’s fruit that we have considered so far are mirrored of course in him, as we ascend towards the top of Paul’s list we become closer to attributes which we see so clearly in Jesus that we can’t avoid starting with him. I can do no better than quote Archbishop Rowan WilliamsIn eternity and in time, Christ makes himself a gift; and in the turbulence and violence of human history, that gift
The (one?) thing that AI will never be able to do (opens the original)
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There are many failed prophecies which begin with ‘Computers [or robots, or AI] will never be able to …’. Human expectations of tasks that can’t be computerised have been confounded time and time again by human ingenuity, now aided by the ability of computers to design themselves. The problem here is that two different arguments have been treated as if they were the same. 'One is empirical - ‘we don’t now have, and can’t presently imagine computer-based ways of fulfilling these tasks’; the other
The fruit of the Spirit and Christian ministry: patience (opens the original)
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Patience is probably the dimension of the fruit of the Spirit that ministers themselves most passionately wish for. It’s closely related to self-control, obviously– if you are genuinely patient, your capacities for self-control won’t be so severely tested. But they aren’t the same. Tuckett has this to say:‘Patience’ (μακροθυμία) is only rarely used by non-biblical writers; within the Judaeo-Christian tradition, it is use
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