From “Wired to Lead: Being the Leader the Church Didn’t Think You Could Be” by Suzanne Nadell Some of you may be questioning why you are even reading this book. You may be thinking, “Suzanne is a liberal journalist disguised as a Christian who tricked me into reading a book that discusses white privilege.” You […]

From “Walk with Me: A Journey through the Landscape of Trauma” by Ellen Corcella Family lives are disrupted and turned upside down by devastating genetic and developmental diseases. Parents must make unbearable decisions about the care of their children. A young girl was failing to thrive at the end of her life. Her parents decided

From “Dropout to Doctorate: Breaking the Chains of Educational Injustice” By Terrence Lester, PhD I’ve worked through much of my own pain and trauma to even understand all the inequities that were barriers to the educational goals in my life. The lack of stability in my home, as well as the social conditions and systemic

By Shelly Palmer “Google quietly launched “AI Edge Eloquent,” an offline-first dictation app for iOS that cleans up your speech and removes filler words. The app uses local Gemini models to transform rambling speech into polished text, with options for “Key points,” “Formal,” “Short,” and “Long” formatting. It can import keywords from Gmail and work

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From “World of Wonders: A Spirituality of Reading” by Jeff Crosby I recently attended an exhibit of more than 100 profoundly moving images taken by the famed photographer Steve McCurry. He may be best known for his 1984 portraiture of the green-eyed Afghan girl Sharbat Gula in a refugee camp outside Peshawar, Pakistan, in the

From “How AI Changes Your Customers: The Marketing Guide to Humanity’s Next Chapter” by Mark Schaefer When AI systems handle complex problem-solving, data analysis, and even creative processes, humans experience what researchers refer to as cognitive offloading.  We turn to ChatGPT instead of struggling to come up with your own ideas. We get summaries instead

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By Shelly Palmer Google just opened Google Vids to anyone with a Google account. The AI-powered video creation tool now lets free users generate up to 10 high-quality video clips each month using Veo 3.1. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get custom music generation via Lyria 3, as well as customizable AI avatars and

From “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons” by Frederick Buechner From the Foreword by Brian McLaren: I have no desire to analyze what makes Buechner’s writing and preaching so extraordinary. Neither do I want to account for Bob Bylan’s raspy mystique, the peculiar beauty of a rainbow trout in a riffle, or a