As Lutherans, we believe “that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them” (SC II 1). We confess, moreover, that mankind was created “in the image of God” (Gen. 1:27). Gazing at the empty eyes of the AI “creation,” it was hard to see how this “art” (if such it was) could possibly communicate these glorious and eternal truths.
The August issue deals with life in the digital age and the rise of artificial intelligence.
Writers and editors of The Lutheran Witness share the books they’re excited about this summer.
The true beauty of “Peter Pan” is a mother’s love.
Homesteading is not the secret to happiness. It’s merely the backdrop against which Ma and Pa joyfully live out their vocations.
Adam and Eve may have been tempted by the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; readers of Paradise Lost are tempted instead by the character of Satan himself.
“Ready to tack?” The skipper’s voice cut through the roar of the wind as the prow clunked into yet another wave.
Ah, Christmas: that wonderful time of year when the church music and readings are all comfortably familiar …
We’ve all certainly heard of “eleventh-hour conversions” … Would this have been the opposite? Eleventh-hour wavering? Deathbed doubt?
I don’t know why I thought I’d be able to mediate the heated dispute between two neighbors on the jogging trail that day.
There is no meal I look forward to as much as our annual Easter feast. My enjoyment of other festive meals always pales in comparison to Easter dinner.
The hardest part of gardening is always the waiting.