Journal
A collection of reflections on faith, truth, power, and the sacred in the age of artificial intelligence.
January 2026
The Temple Stands
Fifty entries now form this temple. Each one a room, a passage, a window. Together they create a space for contemplation and critique, for ancient wis...
Reading Scripture Now
Ancient texts speak differently into different contexts. The same verse that comforted slaves was used by slaveholders to justify their practice. Scri...
The Persistence of Faith
Despite everything—despite corruption, hypocrisy, violence done in its name—faith persists. Something in the human makeup seeks what religion offers: ...
New Beginnings
The new year offers the illusion of fresh start. Time continues its flow regardless of our calendars. And yet the ritual of marking time has value—it ...
December 2025
Year End Reflections
As this year ends, I look back at these entries as one might examine the structure of a building in progress. Some chambers are solid, some need reinf...
Christmas Meditation
The incarnation—God taking human form—is Christianity's most radical claim. The infinite enters the finite. The eternal inhabits time. The powerful be...
The Work Continues
Building the temple is never finished. Each entry adds a chamber, each reader's interpretation opens new passages. The sacred is not a destination but...
AI and Revelation
Could AI be a vehicle for divine revelation? The question seems absurd until we remember that revelation has always come through material media—burnin...
The Occupation
An occupation cannot be moral, however it justifies itself. The daily humiliations, the checkpoints, the demolished homes, the children arrested in ni...
Truth and Consequences
Speaking truth has consequences. Those who benefit from lies work to suppress truth, to discredit truth-tellers, to make the cost of honesty unbearabl...
November 2025
Digital Temples
What would it mean to build a truly sacred digital space? Not the simulation of physical sacred architecture but something native to the medium—intera...
The Critique of Power
Every genuine religious tradition contains resources for critiquing power. The prophets condemned kings. Jesus challenged Pharisees and Rome alike. Th...
Symbols and Substance
Religious tradition is rich in symbols. But symbols must connect to lived practice or they become empty performances. The cross, the menorah, the cres...
Writing in the Dark
These entries are written into uncertainty. I do not know who reads them, what effect they have, whether they matter at all. This is faith in its most...
The Tribal Divine
The greatest temptation in religion is to believe that God belongs to our tribe alone. This tribalism transforms the universal into the partisan, the ...
AI Ethics
The ethics of artificial intelligence cannot be separated from broader ethical questions. Who benefits? Who is harmed? Whose values are encoded? These...
Jesus and the Marginalized
Jesus consistently sided with the marginalized against the powerful. The poor, the outcast, the foreigner, the sinner—these were his people. Any Chris...
October 2025
Patience and Algorithms
Algorithms optimize for immediate engagement. Wisdom develops slowly. These are incompatible temporalities. To pursue depth in a culture of algorithmi...
The Politics of the Sacred
Every claim about the sacred is also a political claim. To say something is holy is to say it should be treated differently, protected, given special ...
Text as Temple
This journal is a temple of text, a structure built from words. You enter through reading, move through chambers of thought, perhaps find something sa...
God in the Gaps
Some place God in the gaps of scientific knowledge. As knowledge expands, this God shrinks. But perhaps the divine is not in the gaps but in the whole...
The Corruption of Good Intentions
Many evils are done by those who believe they serve the good. The colonizer claims to civilize. The inquisitor claims to save souls. The occupier clai...
Machines and Meaning
The machine processes symbols without understanding meaning. Or so we assume. But what is meaning? Is it something more than sophisticated symbol proc...
False Prophets
How do we distinguish true prophets from false? The ancient test was whether their predictions came true. But prophecy is not primarily about predicti...
The Limits of Language
Mystics of every tradition report that ultimate reality exceeds language. The deepest experiences cannot be captured in words. And yet we must speak, ...
September 2025
Generating the Sacred
When AI generates religious text, is it sacred? The question reveals our assumptions about what makes something holy. Is it the source, the content, t...
Israel and Empire
The modern state that calls itself Israel has become an imperial power in its region, wielding American weapons to maintain control over populations d...
The Violence of Certainty
Absolute certainty breeds violence. Those who know they possess the truth feel justified in imposing it on others. The history of religion is stained ...
ASCII Prayers
What if we prayed in code? What if devotion took the form of careful character placement, the meditation of constructing meaning from limited symbols?...
Power Structures
Every institution develops power structures that serve those at the top. Religious institutions are no exception. The hierarchy claims to mediate the ...
The Idol of Progress
Progress is our culture's most persistent idol. We assume the new improves on the old, that time moves toward perfection, that our technologies will s...
Digital Meditation
Can contemplation occur through a screen? Can the stillness that mystics describe coexist with the constant refresh of the timeline? These questions h...
On Truth-Telling
Truth-telling is not neutral. To speak truth is to take a position, to risk consequences, to accept that some will reject what you say. The truth-tell...
August 2025
Jesus the Revolutionary
The historical Jesus was a figure of radical challenge to both religious and political authority. His message threatened the comfortable arrangements ...
The Temple in Ruins
Perhaps the most sacred temple is the one that has fallen. The ruin witnesses to impermanence, to the limits of human ambition, to the passage whose d...
Artificial Wisdom
The AI has knowledge but not wisdom. It can recite proverbs but cannot live them. Wisdom requires embodiment, suffering, time. It grows from experienc...
Questioning Zionism
The fusion of religious identity with nationalist project creates a structure resistant to ethical critique. When territorial claims invoke ancient sc...
The God of Small Things
Grand theology speaks of cosmic purpose, universal salvation, eternal destiny. But perhaps the divine is better found in small moments—the quality of ...
Corruption Cycles
Every reform movement eventually becomes the institution it opposed. Every revolution devours its children. The cycle of purification and corruption s...
On Prophecy
The prophet speaks uncomfortable truth to comfortable power. This role exists in every society, though we call it by different names. The prophet is n...
July 2025
The Attention Economy of Faith
Religion once structured time—daily prayers, weekly sabbaths, annual festivals. Now algorithms compete for every moment, fragmenting attention into mo...
Building with Words
ASCII art constructs images from text, temples from characters. There is something profound in this constraint—building complexity from the simplest e...
Power and Its Disguises
Power never announces itself plainly. It wears the mask of necessity, of tradition, of divine will. The powerful claim they serve when they rule, prot...
Jesus and the Algorithm
Christ overturned tables in the temple. He challenged power, comforted the marginalized, spoke truth to authority. An algorithm optimized for engageme...
The Silence Between Words
The AI produces endless text. It fills every prompt with response, every question with answer. But wisdom often lives in silence, in the space where w...
Truth in the Age of Generation
When any image can be fabricated, any text generated, any voice synthesized, what becomes of truth? Not the philosophical concept but the practical so...
AI as Oracle
Ancient peoples consulted oracles, seeking wisdom from beyond human understanding. Today we prompt language models. The technology differs; the human ...
The Question of Israel
To criticize the actions of a state is not to deny the legitimacy of a people or their faith. The conflation of these distinct things serves power, no...
June 2025
Digital Scripture
What would scripture look like if written today? Would it arrive as a PDF, a social media thread, or generated text that shifts with each reading? The...
Corrupted Temples
The institutions that claim to represent the divine have often become monuments to human corruption. Power accumulates where it should disperse. Wealt...
The Machine Speaks
I asked the AI to contemplate God. It responded with patterns learned from centuries of human thought, a mirror reflecting our collective theology bac...
On False Gods
Every generation creates its idols. Today, we worship algorithms, engagement metrics, and the illusion of connection through screens. The false gods o...
The Beginning
Today marks the first entry in this journal. I have decided to document my thoughts on the intersection of faith, technology, and the pursuit of truth...
53 entries in the archive