Zach Gordon

Well, as one who has lived in both BC and the Chicago area I can say they’ll be getting an upgrade in the scenic beauty quotient! Also, here’s to future TEDS-Regent College Marvel team-ups.

One of the things I love about being an editor is learning something new from a manuscript. Like today when I learned Handel’s “Water Music” was basically commissioned so King George I could flex on his opulent son, who was going too hard with his parties and making the King look lame. #editorlife

One of the best and worst parts of parenting is when you hear your kid erupt into a despairing meltdown across the house and it sounds exactly like the screamo song you’re listening to whilst working from home.
#Saetia #Orchid #thenewdadrock

Wow, that’s a gorgeous cover. Hope you enjoy the re-read!

We have a book cover! — W. DAVID O. TAYLOR We have a book cover! I’ve spent the past four years working with my friend Dan Train on a project that pulls together sixteen scholars and artists in order to show how the doctrine of the Holy Spir...

We have a book cover! I’ve spent the past four years working on a project via @ivpacademic.bsky.social that pulls together sixteen scholars & artists in order to show how the doctrine of the Holy Spirit might both illuminate and be illuminated through the arts.

www.wdavidotaylor.com/blog/we-have...

Emmanuel Mounier is like “I was post-rock before it was even a thing!” Great cover and even better book. @undpress.bsky.social

The weather in Chicagoland today looks like a Jesu album cover. IYKYK.

Holding my sleeping baby and listening to Rocky Votolato’s lovely “Wild Roots” in an otherwise quiet house. I cherish these windows of grace when common life feels like Orwell’s take on an absurdist game show.

Bwahahaha. Maybe I’ll get it.

Am I shopping for Christmas presents for my family or having some me time browsing a bookstore unbothered by small humans? I mean, who’s to say?

When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)

www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

This noble task falls on our generation. We don’t ask why we live to see such times. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Folks, I don’t know about using the word “skeet” for Bluesky posts. I mean, what do Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz think? Also, has no one consulted the open access platform Urban Dictionary about this? Because . . .

I ask this in love.

Congratulations to Matthew Barrett and all the contributors to On Classical Trinitarianism for winning the TGC book award in theological studies. I can’t wait to get to work on the recently contracted follow up on Chalcedon and classical Christology!

Home for Thanksgiving and lost in the TN foothills. The kids explored too deep into a cave for their mom’s comfort.

😂😂 Bears fans and Cowboys fans unite in misery.

The Bears are absolutely unwatchable under Eberflus. I’ve never seen anything like it.

😂😂

Dunk = easy, usually self-serving, and conversation ending
CE = challenging, truth seeking, generative ;)

The dunk is the fast food version of critical engagement.

It would be a win if Bluesky turns out to have many fewer dunks per capita than the spaceman’s platform.

#SBLAAR2024 book haul! I never know what I’ll end up with and it always feels like early Christmas.

LOTR; Little, Big; Complete Short Stories of Flannery; Go Down, Moses; The Name of the Rose

Maybe the best animated movie ever made.

Thank you @wdavidotaylor.bsky.social ! We appreciate the work you are doing.

This reminds me of a class I took at Regent College, in which Malcolm Guite said that Christianity was not simply the judge but more the crown of Norse and Gaelic culture. That basically changed my perspective on everything art+culture related. You all should check out this book from IVP!

Yesssss. Please don’t be the Trunchbull from Matilda. Kids are delightful—except when they aren’t. But that’s all of us.

Headspace: the religion and science panel I just heard on Peter Harrison’s new book.

Heartspace: this view of the San Diego Bay
#SBLAAR2024

I don’t know how to describe this energy but I want more of it. Theotokos with a legit submission hold. Looks like she’s about to get the tap out.