Posts from January 2023

ChatGPT for Churches

I don’t know if you’ve heard of ChatGPT yet. It is an Artificial Intelligence bot that you can get access to (just google it) and you can ask it to do things for you. For example, I was having a little bit of mid-afternoon writers block as I was trying to come up with this…

It is ok to dance

It is illegal to dance in a bar in Sweden. That is, unless that bar has a permit to allow for dancing. This isn’t exotic dance of any kind. Just regular old dancing. Square dancing and waltzes and such. This is the case in Sweden unless a bill moving through parliament takes hold. If so, the…

After the Freeze

If you live in Tallahassee, you have had a little while of witnessing the destruction caused to vegetation by the 20 degree temperatures that visited around Christmastime. Walking around campus last week, you could see the grounds crews working to take out dead plants. In my own backyard, we’re hoping that the frost-bitten citrus leaves…

The 12th Night

Today is the final day of Christmas, the 12 days end tonight at midnight and the season of Epiphany begins with the celebration of the feast of Epiphany on January 6th. In places across the world, people celebrate the 12th day by having “12th night” parties that signal the end of the Christmas season, and…