Last Fall St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, installed a computer screen into a confessional booth. When people entered the confessional, they could interact with a digital avatar of Jesus Christ powered by AI. Yes, an AI Jesus. Meet AI Jesus Swiss IT expert Philipp Haslbauer of Lucerne University produced the AI Jesus. He partnered with the chapel theologian Marco Schmid. They called the experiment “Deus in Machina,” or God in the machine. They wanted…
Three weeks after Billy Graham crossed the confines of time and entered eternity, so did physicist Stephen Hawking. In this life, both were focused, effective, influential, and intensely missional. And then both met their Creator. One was embraced, his arrival anticipated and heralded in heaven. (Psalm 116:15). The other was dismissed, forever tragically separated from the Creator he had spent his earthly existence denying. And both determined that destiny in this life. Hawking, who suffered…