I know. That's not what this verse means. But the one who said it originally knew a bit about what can happen in church‚ and what it sometimes takes to stay on board.

Secular priests with pie servers. They're doing their best. But the pie was never the big picture, because it's a pie.

It's like they're saying LOOK, to redirect our thinking to the applications, when we were asking about the apples. And also the other way around. Or something.

So many questions are raised for me at a — deeper level. Am I allowed to say that, or is that domain already claimed by tech companies?

Gimme shelter, sang the Rolling Stones. Give everyone headphones and a study booth, might be the 2027 remix.

Church is — well, not an optional extra, of course, and yet I can't help thinking that sometimes artificiality leaves us feeling depressed, while sometimes pushing back leads back to God.

Oh, those helpful calligraphers. They always get in the way when you're trying to build a raft.

The kinds of questions around mystery that end up drifting because they're not allowed to land — in this lifetime — without permission.

In a final note for now about AI, I say something about the use and abuse of logic and grammar.

Anguish and tuxedos. As if they make sense together. (Horrible.)

…Blip. Oh. Well, that's the power gone. And I don't just mean electricity. Where's a techie when you need one? He's no good now. At least he has his dramaturgy to fall back on.