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Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
1y ago
On June 11, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines when he claimed that Google’s most recent natural language processing (NLP) program, LaMDA, was sentient and thus deserving of human rights. Google dismissed his claims and placed him ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
The fascist creep is quickening. We have been forced to acknowledge it anew, and Trump’s departure seems likely not to slow it. Many and perhaps most of the people who took over the Capitol building ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
By Rufus Burnett, Jr., and Steven Battin “When you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
The Church, like every human organization, is susceptible to sin. Christ, who established the Church as a universal community of believers to proclaim the kingdom of God, recognized the godliness and the human frailties of ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
“The most dangerous weapon of white supremacy has always been its ability to erase the history of its violence and its victims.” – Dr. Shannen Dee Williams. It is not uncommon for us to hear ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
Too often, when we talk about racism in the United States, we frame it as a sin of the past or as personal ignorance or prejudice. In many educational settings, we see emerging emphasis on ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
People in the U.S. are not very good at being in conflict. This is because, among other reasons, we are not taught about conflict. One of the consistent comments in the evaluations for my undergraduate ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
The U.S. Catholic Church, Joseph Flipper writes, “is shaped by, and continues to operate out of, a matrix of whiteness.” As a result, the church’s identity and mission are distorted by its normative whiteness—as well as ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
Content Warning: This essay contains racist and racialized language used in its historical settings but quoted here. American Jesuits bear a long, complicated, painful, and often enraging history regarding racial justice. As a Jesuit brother ..read more
Daily Theology | Faith Seeking Understanding in Everyday Life
3y ago
White supremacy and patriarchy have been built up for centuries, each using and advancing the other as its predicate. Like the proverbial threads woven in a sweater, white supremacy and patriarchy are intricately and intentionally ..read more