Richard Sweatman

May 22, 2024 | au.thegospelcoalition.org | Stephen Driscoll |Sam Wan |Akos Balogh |Richard Sweatman

Quantum theorist Richard Feynman died of cancer in 1988. One of his final entries on his personal blackboard seems to have been the phrase: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” In the twenty-first century, we are facing the inverse of this. If we can create intelligence, does that mean that we’ve comprehended it? Modern artificial intelligence is remarkable. The computer scientists have built, from code and circuits, a functioning intelligence.

Feb 3, 2024 | au.thegospelcoalition.org | Mikey Lynch |Richard Sweatman |Cassie Watson |Izaac Cowling

That’s how Aaron Johnstone, evangelist with City Bible Forum, finished the church service this morning. He was telling us about the existential dread people have been sharing on the Sesame Street character’s recent Twitter/X post. The account attached to the cutesy red Muppet, famous for talking about himself in the third person in a high-pitched babyish voice, asked on Monday: “Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?” The response?

Dec 13, 2023 | au.thegospelcoalition.org | Cassie Watson |Mikey Lynch |Richard Sweatman |Dhanu Eliezer

Napping is a staple of my Sunday afternoon. After prayer meeting and church, I need to recharge before heading out again for the evening service. But when I wake to a blaring alarm, I’m initially disoriented. For a second, I don’t know where I am or what time it is. Sometimes I instinctively think it’s a workday before I realise I’m on the couch with the afternoon sun streaming in the window. But is this kind of disorientation confined to those few post-nap moments?

Jul 25, 2023 | au.thegospelcoalition.org | Mikey Lynch |Michael Jensen |Richard Sweatman |Dave Morgan

Oppenheimer is a three-hour biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project which invented the atomic bomb. It is Christopher Nolan’s twelfth film—all but one of which (Insomnia (2002)) he has also written. The film has rightly been hailed as a masterpiece: its visuals, sound design, acting, set design, costuming, thematic and dramatic intensity are all terrific.