The quiet grief of adult friendship: Pranav Jain reflects, “Somewhere between 'Let’s catch up soon' and 'Sorry, life has been hectic,’ adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life.
Created to play: Brianna Lambert says, “Scientists admit that of all creatures, humans play the most, noting, “We are built to play and built through play” (Stuart Brown, Play). And God does just that. He builds us through our hobbies and gives us his own titles.”
Five ways our words can be verbal cyanide: Kent Hughes says, “What is the effect of the tongue’s cosmic wickedness? “The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life” (James 3:6). “Course of life” is literally “the wheel of our genesis,” with “genesis” referring to our human life or existence.1 What an apt description of human experience! About nine-tenths of the flames we experience in our lives come from the tongue.”
AI cheating is a failure to love: Alan Noble explains, “Insofar as contemporary education is motivated by a drive for maximal efficiency, what Jacques Ellul calls technique, rather than love of wisdom and knowledge, students will naturally and quite reasonably gravitate towards tools that are the pinnacle of efficiency. But if we teach students to love what is lovely in their subjects, they will see the futility and hollowness in using AI to avoid thinking for themselves.”
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