GodGPT?
You find yourself socially anxious? Think you need counselling? You could try … CATHY.
Business Insider did:
CATHY, what should I do about my social anxiety?”
CATHY is Churchy Answers That Help You, a new AI chatbot that answers faith-based questions from the perspective of a friendly, knowledgeable Episcopalian. (I suppose these could be programed for Baptists and Presbyterians and so on.) Of course, there are no ornate flowing robes or croziers, or incense, and stuff.
Stealing?
America has a shoplifting epidemic.
Stores lose more than $13 billion worth of goods in shoplifting in the United States each year.
The 2022 Retail Security Survey found that 8 out of 10 retailers self-reported increased incidents of “violence and aggression” across 2022. In total, thirty-two states have passed legislation addressing organized retail crime. Close to half of retailers say that their loss prevention budgets were increased in 2022.
One might think organized
Deciding!
Decision making? It might all be a mirage, they say—researchers from Johns Hopkins University and The Ohio State University, in “The Illusion of Information Adequacy,” published in the Public Library of Science: ONE, the other day.
Information is required, of course, to come to a decision—any decision. But how much information does one need? Apparently, there is a psychological reason why some people aren’t just wrong in an argument— no, they’re confidently
Theology Issues–2
This is Part 2 of an interview with friends from Asian Christian Academy‘s Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, India, a school with which I have had a long and fruitful association. Its president, Dr. Stephen George, and its Director of DMin Studies, Dr. Saji Thomas, were the hosts. (Part 1 can be found here.)
Standing!
The cure for all your health problems stemming from sitting in front of screen all day at the office? Standing desks, they said.
Not any longer.
Yes, folks who sit all day need to move around. But standing desks, apparently, are not the compensation for inactivity. Or so declared researchers from the Universities of Sydney, and Perth, and from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in “Device-Measured Stationary Behaviour and Cardiovascular and Orthostatic Circulatory Disease
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.