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Recent Articles

Recent Articles

Learning from the Sidelines

Moving to a new position lets me watch from the sidelines as someone else doing my old job. It’s wonderfully illuminating and has given me ideas about how to improve.

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Can a Machine be Conscious?

Is artificial consciousness possible? Could we create a machine with an inner mental life of feeling and experience like ours? To do so would mean solving these two hard problems.

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Genesis and God’s Intentions

What exactly are God’s intentions for the world? The danger is that we simply think about what kind of world we would like and ascribe our desires to God. Instead, I shall take as my starting point the Genesis accounts of creation.

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Growing Youth Work

During my ten years as a parish priest on the Essex-Suffolk border, we grew our youth work tenfold. In this video, I talk about how that happened. In particular, I explain the ten key things we did.

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