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Artificial intelligence does more than raise technical questions; it presses the deeper question of what it means to be human. Camden Bucey speaks with Jason Thacker, author of The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, about human dignity, the image of God, and the crucial distinction between a human person and a machine.
They consider how Christians can receive technology as a tool under God’s providence without confusing imitation with intelligence, convenience with communion, or productivity with personal worth. The conversation also explores how technology forms its users, why embodied life and genuine relationships matter, and how transhumanism redirects the human longing for life beyond death toward technological self-salvation.
Against both utopian promises and dystopian fear, Thacker points to the sufficiency of Scripture and the hope of the risen Christ. Christians can engage emerging technologies wisely because human identity is given by the Creator, human dignity cannot be earned or erased, and Christ remains Lord over every age.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Meet Jason Thacker
03:24 From public policy to AI ethics
06:05 Teaching ethics, philosophy, and technology
09:53 AI’s anthropological challenge
12:58 What has changed since The Age of AI?
14:55 Humanizing machines and dehumanizing people
19:55 The image of God and human dignity
25:39 AI companionship and simulated relationships
28:11 How technology forms and disciples us
34:00 Embodiment, materialism, and personal identity
42:20 Transhumanism and the longing for immortality
48:35 Engaging Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical
53:22 Technology as ecological change
54:43 Scripture, Christian hope, and the future
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This is the second lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ. This lesson covers the following topics:



00:00 Introduction to the Logos Incarnandus

08:30 Eternal Generation and the Incarnation

17:30 The Eternal Decree and the Covenant of Redemption

27:00 The Son as Mediator in God’s Redemptive Plan

37:30 Scripture’s Witness to the Pre-Incarnate Christ

47:30 Theological Implications for Christology

56:00 Summary and Concluding Reflections




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Camden Bucey speaks with economist Shawn Ritenour about what makes an account of economics distinctly Christian. They discuss economic law as part of God’s created order and the biblical principles shaping stewardship, private property, labor, capital, exchange, and care for those in need. Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas provides the occasion for a searching conversation about the universal destination of goods, Big Tech, data, subsidiarity, sphere sovereignty, GDP, and human dignity.
The conversation presses beneath policy to theology. Neither markets nor governments escape the effects of sin, and material prosperity must never be confused with sanctification. Christians seek just and prudent arrangements in this age while recognizing that scarcity, exploitation, and disordered desire will not finally be overcome by human construction. The church’s hope rests in the crucified and risen Christ and the consummation of his kingdom.
Topics Discussed
Economic law, creation, and Christian stewardship
Private property, labor, capital, exchange, and human dignity
Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas and Catholic social teaching
GDP, inequality, and the common good
The universal destination of goods
Data, privacy, Big Tech, and non-rivalrous goods
Subsidiarity and Kuyperian sphere sovereignty
Universal basic income and the economic disruption of AI
Sin, scarcity, eschatology, and Christian hope

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:09 What makes economics Christian?
09:52 Economics at Grove City College
14:01 Introducing Magnifica Humanitas
19:23 GDP and the dignity of the human person
23:46 The common good, inequality, and economic law
29:36 Private property, markets, and solidarity
35:12 The universal destination of goods
43:20 Data, privacy, and non-rivalrous goods
50:21 Subsidiarity and sphere sovereignty
55:04 Big Tech, state privilege, and central banking
58:02 Labor, capital, and human worth
63:26 Universal basic income in the age of AI
72:33 Economics between the fall and the consummation
80:03 Resources and conclusion

This is the first lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ. This lesson covers the following topics:



00:00 Introduction to Christology: The Person of Christ

05:30 Why Christology Is Central to Christian Theology

13:30 The Three Dogmatic Aspects of the Person of Christ

22:00 Christology Throughout Scripture and Redemptive History

32:30 Ancient and Modern Christological Errors

44:00 The Course Framework and Theological Method

55:30 Why the Doctrine of Christ Matters Today




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What does it mean to cultivate a life of Reformed piety? Camden Bucey speaks with Joel Beeke about the ordinary practices by which God forms reverential love for himself in Christian homes: Scripture reading, prayer, singing, biblical meditation, family worship, and faithful participation in the church’s public worship.
Dr. Beeke explains why meditation serves as a “halfway house” between Bible reading and prayer, how deliberate meditation gives rise to spontaneous reflection throughout the day, and why small, repeated habits often bear their richest fruit over decades. The conversation offers practical encouragement for parents, spouses, pastors, and every believer who desires an integrated life of devotion—one in which home, church, and daily vocation are oriented toward the glory of God and maturity in Christ.
Topics Discussed
Reformed piety as reverential love for God
Building durable habits of family worship
Reading Scripture, praying, singing, and instructing children
Praying with one’s spouse
Deliberate and spontaneous biblical meditation
Carrying the ministry of the Word from church into the home
Preparing the family for the Lord’s Day
The long-term fruit of ordinary spiritual disciplines

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:41 Puritan Reformed Seminary, Reformation Heritage Books, and current ministry
06:24 Recent and forthcoming books
15:05 Cultivating Reformed piety in the home
16:22 Family worship and the Family Worship Bible Guide
24:46 Prayer with one’s spouse and family
27:22 Biblical meditation between reading and prayer
34:03 Recommended writers on Reformed piety
40:04 Connecting church, home, and school
45:51 The Lord’s Day as an uninterrupted exercise of piety
51:13 Beginning family worship simply
53:58 Cultivating spontaneous prayer and spiritual conversation
55:50 Conclusion