Theresa Conefrey: Keep effortful learning in a portfolio, especially when using AI
Artificial intelligence, in particular generative AI, can produce writing that - at first glance - looks polished. But does that indicate that a student has learned? That this is their own experience? Teaching Professor Dr Theresa Conefrey from Santa Clara University in California, U.S.A., is all...
Is it better to love a cat or a robot? (w/ Dustin Atlas)
When we talk about relationships with AI, we often focus on whether these machines are alive or sentient. But life and sentience aren't necessary for relationships; in fact, we often have deep relationships with objects and animals—and we often treat people like objects, too.
There is a theory o...
Why Change Feels So Hard: Thresholds & The In-Between
What threshold are you standing at—and what do you need to set down to cross it? Angela and Deanna explore life’s in-between spaces, the resistance that can keep us there, and the possibility waiting on the other side.
Highlights
00:00 - What threshold are you standing at?
01:01 - Becoming leads...
You Are Not a Problem To Solve - On Intersubjectivity, and the Objects We Make of Each Other
There's a moment where someone stops being a person to you and becomes a situation: a difficult client, a high-maintenance friend, a problem your partner needs to solve. And there's a quieter, more common version of that same moment: where you stop being a person to yourself, and become a body t...
The Loneliness of the Advanced Practitioner: Why Genuine Interior Work Creates a Mismatch the Field Has No Remedy For
You stopped performing the familiar and the relationship ended. You stopped collapsing on cue and they called you cold. You stopped confirming the image and they said you changed. They were right. You did. And the relational field, organized around the wound you no longer carry the same way, regi...
Martin Buber: Are We Forgetting How to Be Human?
Are we beginning to treat people more like things?
In this episode of Godsplaining, Fr. Bonaventure and Joseph-Anthony explore the thought of Jewish philosopher Martin Buber and his influential work I and Thou. Buber argues that we encounter the world through two fundamental relationships: “I–It...
End the War in Your Relationship: Harville Hendrix & Helen Hunt
Join Harville & Helen's online Getting the Love You Want weekend workshop for couples, Oct 23-25, 2026:https://harvilleandhelen.com/calendar/
What if there were a tool to end war in your relationship? Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt, the founders of Imago Relationship Therapy, say the answer is ...
Talk About Bupkes! LIVE at Writers Festival of Belgium
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We are fresh back from Antwerp, a.k.a. the city for people who don’t like Brussels, on the kind invitation of Writers Festival of Belgium. It was a great day of words, ideas, and nice people.
If you ...
America’s Divorce: When a Nation Loses Its Shared Story
America increasingly resembles a marriage approaching divorce: the left and right still share the same home, but they no longer agree on the story of their relationship.
In this entry of Thursday Journal, we travel from the ancient campfires that first transformed strangers into communities to th...
Not Far to Fall
Not far to fall.Julia found an essay she started writing years ago and never finished, so she finished it now. "Let's just say my view from the front porch has changed quite a bit."It begins with growth, the thing everything is supposed to do: babies, wealth, cities, followers, even faith. "Healt...
