Month: July 2023

Editor’s note: The entire transcript was “tidied up” by ChatGPT, with some minor additional editing by me.  Donald: In our previous discussion, we delved into the connection between music and spirituality based on Carolyn’s insights. Our inherent need to create music emerges from emotional expression, communication, social ties, creativity, cognitive benefits, and its role in…

Don: We’ve been looking at how we form our images of God from the standpoint of technology and artificial intelligence. Jason spoke about how education influences our view of God. Donald has led a very productive and fruitful discussion in the last few weeks on imagery and how we form our image of God.  This…

Don: We’ve been studying the following questions: How do we form our image of God? What informs the picture we have in our minds? What are the effects of technology and artificial intelligence on our picture of God? Jason led us through some ideas about how education shapes our picture of God. Donald has discussed…

Donald used images from the public Internet, possibly protected by copyright, to illustrate some of the points discussed. The images and specific discussion of them are omitted from this transcript. —Ed Donald: First we’ll briefly review what I shared with you last week, and then apply it maybe more directly to the specific question of…

A note on copyright: Most of the images shown in this post are the work of Donald May and are used with his permission. Other were copied from the public Internet, but despite the fair use provisions of copyright law that allow even copyrighted materials to be displayed for a single time to a limited…