HeyJaredFor Soul and City
Ruminations on ministry in the post-secular west, whole of life discipleship and a healthy dose of Kierkegaard
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The AI Arms Race Shows us we Become what we Make (Faith at Work, Part 1) (opens the original)
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The age of AI is upon humanity. I’ve held back from commenting on it because I feel on the cusp of a revolution I cannot understand. How could you predict the rapid onset of change that electricity would bring to the world and the cascades of increasing alterations to the fabric of our society? I am not yet willing to comment on how work will change because of AI; I have neither confidence nor clarity of thought on this subject. I doubt those who say they know as well. However, I have noticed so
The Demands of Hope - In Memory of Tom Sine (opens the original)
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Today, we farewelled my uncle, Tom Sine, in a memorial in Seattle. Tonight I am sitting in his prayer tower. In the enclosed front porch of his house, there is a wonderful garden of potted indoor plants. From there a ladder leads up to a dormer in the roof. Positioned perfectly up there is a single chair that looks out over Green Lake and across to the magnificent Olympic Mountains, where the sun is now setting. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fet
Should we Seek the Peace of the City? How to Love Cities Part 2 (Love at Work, Part 6) (opens the original)
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I work in the most beautiful parish on earth. It encompasses the southern head of Sydney Harbour. It is a broad peninsula which narrows to a tip where dolphins often frolic. The first building here in 1818 was a lighthouse, followed by a second in the 1850s, after the wreck of the ship Dunbar. In that era, the first of our churches was also built. St Peter’s was made to stand as a kind of lighthouse of its own on the headland. It was named for the great maritime apostle, Peter, the pilot of the
Should we Seek the Peace of the City? Tim Keller, Jacques Ellul and How to Love Cities Part 1. (Love at Work, Part 5). (opens the original)
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Newcastle, a city two hours North of Sydney, has undergone a tremendous transformation in my lifetime. In 1915, Newcastle became the centre of steel production in Australia for the next 84 years. The whole city was centred upon this production, which animated much of its civic life. This all changed within a decade; a devastating earthquake in 1989 and the closure of steel production in 1999 altered the city entirely. In fact, it hollowed out the city's soul. Newcastle, scarred by disaster and d
Stop Complaining About your Work and start Lamenting it (Love at Work, Part 4) (opens the original)
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In 1983, Nicholas Wolterstorff received a call from Austria at 3:30 pm on a Sunday afternoon to let him know that his son, Eric, had died in a climbing accident; he was only twenty-five years old. Eric had been free-climbing on his own; he had a love of solitude, so no one was there to aid him in his time of need. In response, Wolterstorff wrote a series of poems and laments which he later published as ‘Lament for a Son’. The laments are a wonderful picture of the depth, variety and rhythm of gr
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