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[Book Review] Glorified Beggars by Brendon Naicker (opens the original)
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Stop calling it faith. It’s begging. Pastors soliciting their own congregations and calling it faith. Building funds pitched as tests of spirituality. “Kingdom expansion” used to justify asking other people to fund what we never planned to fund ourselves. Somewhere along the way, the church learned to dress dependency up as devotion — and it’s time someone said so plainly. Glorified Beggars by Brendon Naicker traces this culture from Ananias and Sapphira’s performance of generosity to the modern
Brain Engineering and AI Engineering (opens the original)
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This podcast asks a question tech coverage usually skips: if we’re growing human neurons into commercial products, does moral status come from complexity — or from origin? It argues dignity attaches at the source, not at some future threshold of sophistication — while naming the assumption both AI and biocomputing quietly share: that mind is just matter arranged well enough. #Biocomputing #OrganoidIntelligence #AIEthics #ReformedTheology #ImagoDei #NeuralEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence
Who Will Shepherd the Machines? (opens the original)
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Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it. The United Nations has warned that the world needs urgent safeguards—but is regulation enough? In this episode of Living Theology, Brendon Naicker explores what the Bible has to say about technology, wisdom, the Tower of Babel, and why the greatest challenge of AI is not artificial intelligence, but the human heart. What does it mean to follow Christ in an age where machines are becoming increasingly intelligent? #Livi
The New Tower of Babel (opens the original)
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Step into one of the most pressing questions of our generation: Who should govern artificial intelligence? As governments and technology leaders debate the future of AI, Christians are called to ask a deeper question. What does the story of the Tower of Babel teach us about human ambition, technological progress, and our dependence on God? In this episode of Living Theology, Brendon Naicker explores how Genesis 11 speaks powerfully into today’s AI revolution. Technology itself is not the enemy—b
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