On everyone’s mind

Fear of what we are building

One state signed a safety order. The people who build the systems still do not agree.

Courage

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

2 Timothy 1:7 · World English Bible

Fear is not treated as insight. Power, love, and self-control are. That is not an order to be naive about machines. It is an order not to let dread become the spirit you live in.

What has fear of the future already made you colder toward living people?

Truth

Don’t quench the Spirit. Don’t despise prophecies. Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. Abstain from every form of evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:19–22 · World English Bible

Prophecies, claims, demos, extinction essays — the age is full of them. Test. Keep what is good. Throw out what is theater. Neither mockery nor awe is the same as judgment.

Which claim about the future have you accepted because it flattered your side?

A short prayer

Give us a sound mind. Save us from panic that sells, and from cheerfulness that lies.