Conversations

Every week I summarize books or magazine articles that deserve conversations — and somehow save you some time. One of our purposes is to diversify the topics and the authors, and this week will keep us on the path of this purpose. So, enjoy over coffee, on Zoom, at lunch, or in a group!

From Free America to Smart America: We continue to sketch the map of America from George Packer’s Last Best Hope. Just who are these folks in Smart America?

My experience with a “surprising conversation” generated by AI, where the Technologists go to bat against the Luddites.

The big claim made in a recent book about “inspiration.” What does the author mean by “nowhere” in the New Testament do we find the claim? I will respond briefly to his conclusions.

A new book called A Revolutionary Jesus draws us into the tension between Jesus’s nonviolence and the willingness of so many of his followers to go “realist” when it comes to nonviolence.

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