I also loved the tiny personal mailboxes. 🥹 Growing up, my sisters’ and I had bedroom doors all facing each other and meeting in a small circular space upstairs. I, being obsessed with mail and the postal system 😂, made mailboxes for us to write “sister notes.” One of my favorite memories of growing up, and this note brought that up for me! Would definitely love taking it up a level like this original writer did. :)
I teach in a Christian higher education professional training program (clinical doctorate) and am grateful for our school's generative AI policy as it stands--each instructor has the sole authority to determine, in writing, whether and where students may use genAI. Another department in the school is embracing genAI for practice job interviews and that sort of thing. I suspect that I am one of the holdouts since I am only allowing students to use that form of AI for generating citations for articles they have to cite in papers/projects.
I so enjoyed Denise’s and Leah’s pieces. Both were a beautiful blessing to me in this week. Thanks for sharing.
I also want to say, I still really appreciate the female body compilation, and keep going back to it. It’s quite expansive, covering not just a variety of lenses through which to view a few particular things, but also covering a wide range of topics in the female life. Every time you reference it, I feel like going back in, even if not to learn something in particular, but to feel a bit more connected to myself and to the others among our half of the human race. It actually reminded me that I need to start talking to my mother about her peri/menopausal experience sooner rather than later, and instead of asking strangers on the internet to inform me of something when I have a personal expert whose experience mine will likely image. Anyway! Thank you!
Another great collection here, Haley. This line -- “Sacraments are embodied mysteries, if you will… they’re incarnation pieces and they point beyond themselves. These are places where we touch the divine. The imagination expands.” YES. And re baptism/history: this is a good reminder. The Church has been a constantly evolving entity. Catholics especially love to talk about the early church because we tend to think we're the closest to that - but it's worth admitting that the Church had many ideas about how to do things and it took often centuries to establish norms. There was indeed room for debate on ideas that are currently set doctrine. That shouldn't scare anyone off, but it's just a fact. Also -- hear, hear, to all the schooling issues. Did you read that horrifying article in The New York Times about the Florida public school system embracing AI? It's straight out of a dystopian novel. We are all going to be forced into some hard choices, for ourselves and our children. When our beloved forest preschool said they were considering a kindergarten I practically leaped on them - YES YES please do! And an elementary school too! Save my kids from screens (and me from full time homeschooling- I'm totally into the idea of half days or 3 days at school, 2 at home etc) - anyway, real schools offering real experiences with actual learning will be in very high demand.
Re the O. Alan Noble article about AI and virtuous higher ed: I work at a Christian higher ed institution, and I was appalled to see another Christian university recently launch several personalized, self-paced AI "degree programs." It makes me so ill to think about, especially since they claim "each student will take away the same level of knowledge and preparedness to put their education into practice in the real world" as if they did a traditional program. Seems to me to be in direct conflict with the Christian call to become more Christ-like.
I need to read more Flannery O'Connor. I've been squirreling away podcast episodes and resources but I forever have a hard time committing to short stories-- as soon as I settle in to them they're over! That blessing is amazing. Ha!
I also loved the tiny personal mailboxes. 🥹 Growing up, my sisters’ and I had bedroom doors all facing each other and meeting in a small circular space upstairs. I, being obsessed with mail and the postal system 😂, made mailboxes for us to write “sister notes.” One of my favorite memories of growing up, and this note brought that up for me! Would definitely love taking it up a level like this original writer did. :)
I teach in a Christian higher education professional training program (clinical doctorate) and am grateful for our school's generative AI policy as it stands--each instructor has the sole authority to determine, in writing, whether and where students may use genAI. Another department in the school is embracing genAI for practice job interviews and that sort of thing. I suspect that I am one of the holdouts since I am only allowing students to use that form of AI for generating citations for articles they have to cite in papers/projects.
I so enjoyed Denise’s and Leah’s pieces. Both were a beautiful blessing to me in this week. Thanks for sharing.
I also want to say, I still really appreciate the female body compilation, and keep going back to it. It’s quite expansive, covering not just a variety of lenses through which to view a few particular things, but also covering a wide range of topics in the female life. Every time you reference it, I feel like going back in, even if not to learn something in particular, but to feel a bit more connected to myself and to the others among our half of the human race. It actually reminded me that I need to start talking to my mother about her peri/menopausal experience sooner rather than later, and instead of asking strangers on the internet to inform me of something when I have a personal expert whose experience mine will likely image. Anyway! Thank you!
Another great collection here, Haley. This line -- “Sacraments are embodied mysteries, if you will… they’re incarnation pieces and they point beyond themselves. These are places where we touch the divine. The imagination expands.” YES. And re baptism/history: this is a good reminder. The Church has been a constantly evolving entity. Catholics especially love to talk about the early church because we tend to think we're the closest to that - but it's worth admitting that the Church had many ideas about how to do things and it took often centuries to establish norms. There was indeed room for debate on ideas that are currently set doctrine. That shouldn't scare anyone off, but it's just a fact. Also -- hear, hear, to all the schooling issues. Did you read that horrifying article in The New York Times about the Florida public school system embracing AI? It's straight out of a dystopian novel. We are all going to be forced into some hard choices, for ourselves and our children. When our beloved forest preschool said they were considering a kindergarten I practically leaped on them - YES YES please do! And an elementary school too! Save my kids from screens (and me from full time homeschooling- I'm totally into the idea of half days or 3 days at school, 2 at home etc) - anyway, real schools offering real experiences with actual learning will be in very high demand.
Re the O. Alan Noble article about AI and virtuous higher ed: I work at a Christian higher ed institution, and I was appalled to see another Christian university recently launch several personalized, self-paced AI "degree programs." It makes me so ill to think about, especially since they claim "each student will take away the same level of knowledge and preparedness to put their education into practice in the real world" as if they did a traditional program. Seems to me to be in direct conflict with the Christian call to become more Christ-like.
That is... alarming.
I need to read more Flannery O'Connor. I've been squirreling away podcast episodes and resources but I forever have a hard time committing to short stories-- as soon as I settle in to them they're over! That blessing is amazing. Ha!