Sam Wan

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.

Aug 7, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Andrew Bunt |Sam Wan |Andreas-Christian Heidel |William B. Bowes

Who am I? What does it mean to be human? These are core questions, explored by the human race in a variety of forms, from religion to music to art to literature. Our answers to these questions will shape our identity, or as Andrew Bunt defines, “our controlling self-understanding,” which, in turn, will shape our concepts of worth, value, emotional/mental health, actions and relationships (p. 3).

Jun 15, 2023 | au.thegospelcoalition.org | Michael Jensen |Sam Wan |Akos Balogh |Cassie Watson

In a national referendum in the latter part of 2023, Australians will be asked to decide on a proposal to establish an ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice’. It is the purpose of this article to give some guidance to Christians who are not themselves Aboriginal or Torres Strat Islander people, on thinking through how they might vote in an informed and, indeed, Christian way.