June 5, 2026

Today the church is asking what it actually means to be human before God — and whether the habits we're forming are helping us answer that question or quietly replacing it. Christianity Today runs a piece this week arguing that AI can only respond to what we already know to ask — which means if our formation is shallow, our tools will be too. That's not primarily a tech argument. It's a formation argument. Chris Martin is pressing something adjacent: the mandate to cultivate and create became, somewhere, the compulsion to play God. The line between stewardship and overreach is thinner than we want it to be. First Things weighs in on restoration — not the quick kind, but the generational kind — arguing that culture doesn't recover through campaigns, it recovers through deliberate, slow cultivation. That question hasn't gone away. On March 30 several writers were circling the same tension from the angle of pace and desire — whether we can even want the right things when everything moves this fast.

The Gospel Coalition says the Psalms are the answer to numb faith — not technique, not framework, but the actual words of people who befriended God through argument, grief, and praise. Ligonier is in the same neighborhood: when Scripture feels cold, you keep reading anyway. Relevant Magazine takes a different angle and says celebration is a spiritual discipline the church has mostly abandoned — that joy isn't a reward for getting everything right, it's a practice. Also in the feed: a TGC piece from a writer who learned what the gospel means through autoimmune disease, when her own body became the enemy. Real theology learned that way tends to stick. Ryan Burge's data on the Southern Baptist Convention is hard to look away from — the numbers don't allow for spin, and he doesn't offer any. What threads through all of it is the same quiet question: are we actually being formed into something, or are we just maintaining the appearance of it?