book announcements, hermeneutics
Opening at #7 on Amazon’s Top 100 Hot New Releases in its category, comes a new book from Dr. Christopher Cone and Exegetica Publishing. Priority in Biblical Hermeneutics and Theological Method is a text designed as a graduate/post-graduate level discussion of...
open letters, priorities, social justice
From A Burdened Pastor in the Middle East. Greetings in Christ, We are in a very critical period of time concerning the refugees flooding into your countries. You have a golden opportunity. You either choose it or lose it and lose Europe and America forever. Families...
leadership, organizational leadership
From the Japanese term gemba, referring to “the real place,” the Gemba (or Genba) Walk is a concept applied in several improvement and efficiency models to understand through observation what is really taking place in the place where the work is actually being done,...
covenants & promises, hermeneutics
Question: Is Genesis 12:2-3 actually a covenant? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to simply call these verses promises? Answer: If Genesis 12:1-3 is taken in a vacuum, then we might not consider it a covenant, simply because it is not specifically identified as a...
artificial intelligence, bioethics, science
Shibuya Mirai is an AI chatbot designed to interact as a seven-year-old boy. Mirai was granted residency status in Tokyo, marking another milestone in the journey to the development of consciousness in machines. Cognitive scientists Dehaene, Lau, and Kouider suggest...