When this year began, I hadn’t posted to this blog in quite a while, so I decided to save a little money and quit paying for a site and domain name it didn’t look like I was going to use. But when I thought about how AI seemed to be taking direct aim at human writing — not to mention many other creative human endeavors — I changed my mind.

In his book, A Mind for God, James Emery White says that human beings are “made in God’s image, and one of the most precious and noble dynamics within that image is the ability to think.” Emery is right, and right up there with the ability to think is the ability to write. Though thinking comes naturally, and writing must be taught, the ability to put our thoughts in writing and preserve them for others is an equally precious aspect of the imago dei that all humans bear. God even chose writing as the means by which His Word would be passed down to future generations. And AI is threatening to make the need for that ability obsolete.

With that in mind, I decided I ought to exercise that precious ability and get back to writing a few blog posts now and then — without the helpful assistance of AI, though Jetpack kindly made me the offer. I’m pretty rusty but, at the same time, a little excited about getting back into writing before my own skill — such as it is — atrophies completely. There’s much to be commented on — and lamented — in the intersection between politics, culture, and faith in these troubled times, so today I’m jumping back into the fray, and we’ll see where it goes from here.