Brad Smith

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

@dandarling I don’t think it is a blanket no matter what decision

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

This is the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), watching the ice break up in the winter of 1915, just weeks before his exploration vessel The Endurance was crushed by the ice pack and sank below the Weddell Sea. I have cleaned-up and enhanced this old paget plate, which was taken in colour by the ship's photographer Frank Hurley 111 years ago. It's an early colour glass-plate process and not colourised.

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

@collinhansen Loved seeing Caro’s Working. Such a fascinating enjoyable read.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Man, this is beautiful. A life adorning the gospel.

Listen to what @StevenBartlett—host of one of the world’s most popular podcasts—says to Christian apologist John Lennox.

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
Psalms 94:18-19

[Glen Scrivener @glenscrivener]

The most convincing argument for Christianity is not an argument:

https://t.co/9y2vkIc1Kz

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

“We now find ourselves in a world where we understand how almost everything works, but we know the meaning of nothing.”

That's not a religious argument. That's a scientific one.

And this isn’t coming from someone who abandoned logic to find faith…

Today’s guest is John Lennox, a mathematician who has spent 70 years interrogating faith with logic, science, philosophy, and evidence and somehow came out the other side more convinced.,

I sat down with John as I wanted a conversation not only around religion, but how AI is making every one of us ask religious-sized questions.

We discussed things like:

- Why artificial intelligence is still artificial
- The difference between simulating intelligence and possessing consciousness
- Human dignity in the age of AI and why it matters more, not less
- Loneliness and why it makes us vulnerable to fake connection
- The peace that most of us are actually searching for

I didn’t feel like I was being pushed towards an answer.

Instead I was being invited to think more honestly about the questions.

You do not have to share his faith to learn from the way he thinks.

For anyone asking what makes us human in a world of machines, this is a conversation I would really recommend.

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

Good one here. Fascinating account of how Patriots actually used the Bible during the Revolution.

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

@razib_ul47671 Claude

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Not one of the five exits off Omaha have been taken by frontal assault. Outflanked, shelled to pieces by the navy. Bradley is now deciding that US troops should stay. Just a few hundred men are leading the way out of hell, changing history right now.

[Band of Brothers Behind the Scenes @BandBehind]

Tonight,
Is the night,
Of nights.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Aboard USS Empire Javelin, officers from the 116th Inf. Reg. attend a final briefing. This is the map they examine. A Company will land in the first wave at 6.30 am - 102 out of the 180 men will be dead in less than 12 hours.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

Today in American History: June 5th, 1944

"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you"

General Eisenhower delivers his legendary speech on the eve of D-Day

Read the complete speech here🧵

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Steven Bartlett, host of the podcast, The Diary of a CEO, released an interview with Christian apologist, John Lennox, this week, and his closing comments to him were fascinating:

"One of the most compelling arguments for God that you've presented (and your way of seeing the world and being) is not actually necessarily anything you've written in your books or not not necessarily anything you've said. It is actually you.

You have a certain peace and contentment that I rarely see in people that I interview, but I often see, and I've almost always seen, in the Christians that I've interviewed, and this is a interesting phenomenon for me...it seems to be a trend that a lot of the Christian apologists that I've interviewed have that anchoring that so many of us are looking for."

What a great witness.

Link to interview below

[The Dispatch @thedispatch]

Six months ago, doctors gave @BenSasse three to four months to live. He’s still here.

Ben Sasse sat down with Dispatch senior editor @McCormackJohn to talk about faith, suffering, family, and death. Here's what he had to say: ⬇️ (1/6)

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

@ThomasSKidd Finally reading Byrd’s book now

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

@EWErickson

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

@readswithravi East of Eden
City of God

[Thomas S. Kidd @ThomasSKidd]

"The state can create space for faith. It can protect the Church from persecution. It can even order society in ways that reflect natural law and Christian moral reasoning. But it cannot generate living faith." @firstthingsmag https://t.co/18eur54ORg

[Brad Smith @Bsmith4Jc]

@travisakers Robert Caro’s The Power Broker and his LBJ project . Gold standard