Keswick: ‘My conversations online with AI’
Ros Clarke
Have you experimented with ChatGPT or Google Bard? These two extraordinary chatbots based on large language models can have ‘conversations’ about anything and everything.
It is like an interactive form of Wikipedia, a helpline, a travel guide, a review site, and much, much more. The conversations can mimic ordinary human chat to an incredible degree. They were very excited to hear all about my new dog and asked sensible questions, though it was a bit like talking to a child who has just read a book and wants to list all the facts they have learned.
Evangelicals speak out movingly at CofE’s General Synod
Ros Clarke
Over five hot and
sunny days at
the
University of York, the Church of England’s
General Synod met to debate and discuss
issues of national and international concern,
as well as internal church business.
The war in Ukraine, assisted dying, and
age limits on pornography were among the
issues where Synod agreed motions calling
Parliament and the nation to act in accordance
with Christian morality. Many evangelical
members were
amongst
those who gave
moving speeches sharing personal testimony of these evils and also of the transformative
power of the gospel in these situations.
Evangelical Futures: What’s the future for C of E complementarians?
Ros Clarke
Is there a future for complementarianism in the Church of England?
Thirty years ago, when the first ordinations of women priests were beginning, the Church of England claimed to hold ‘two integrities’. Both those in favour of such ordinations and those opposed on grounds of theological conviction were held to represent valid Anglican orthodoxy. The balance changed with the consecration of women as bishops. At that point, the church declared that women should rightly be able to serve in any office in the Church of England. There is now only one integrity.
