Theft!
Calvin Johnson, 36, stole a BMW a few weeks ago. The 2018 convertible was filched while the car’s owner was walking his dog at Ormond Beach’s Centennial Park (in Florida). Johnson, cops say, rummaged through the unlocked BMW and found the keys in a cupholder.
The burglar then, driving over 100 mph, crashed the car in what was, thankfully, a single-vehicle accident, not involving other modes of transportation or other humans. It was totaled. Passing motorists extricated
Boiling!
Lassen Volcanic National Park is located in northeastern California, about 175 miles north of Sacramento. Hot water is a major feature of the Park, that has hydrothermal areas featuring steam and volcanic gas vents, mud pots and boiling pools. One would have thought nothing could live in the insalubrious conditions of those vents, pots, and pools. But then, one would be wrong.
Living within the hot water, scientists (from Syracuse University, University of California at
Empathy!
Never, we said. Nope. AI is well and good, but doctors will always be necessary, we said. Not particularly for their diagnostic acumen—surely given the right inputs, machines can come up with even more accurate diagnoses. But never would AI be able to substitute for the human touch, we said. Healthcare personnel would always be needed, we said. For empathy.
“We”—whoever that is—may be wrong.
Someone actually did a study on this: researchers from the Universities
Titus 3:1–15
Behavior in society involves submission to authority, and utmost consideration for all people, avoiding all ungody and fractious behavior (and persons), as believers engage in good works, demonstrating the same kindness and love for mankind that God had for them.
In this text, “good works” (3:1, 8, 14; and when examined across the New Testament they include “works” of thought, work, and deed) deals with behavior in society. So Christians are to live a godly life
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.