If you kill a language, you actually destroy an entire universe of meaning. C.S. Lewis coined a phrase a word “verbicide”, which he used to describe what he called the murder of a word. As a writer, you can imagine that verbicide for Lewis was considered to be a major crime. We can only imagine what C.S. Lewis would think today about the state of New York legally changing the language of their law code by substituting for the word mother, with the words gestating parent. Let's talk about this.

R. Albert Mohler, “Mass verbicide in New York”, June 15, 2026.

Joseph Backholm, “Government as super-parent”, June 5, 2026.

Glenn T. Stanton, “Pushback for parental rights in Colorado”⁠, June 4, 2026.

In the church I pastor, we have homesteading courses, classes that teach, canning fruits and vegetables, building a pantry. The kind of skills your grandma taught you or used to teach you. Somebody recently asked me, is this church a prepper church? So, I thought about that question, and today, I want us to talk about the difference between being a prepper and being prepared.

Les Sillars, “Visions of the Apocalypse”, September 2025.

Carolina Lumetta, “Prophetic Foreign Policy” , September 2025.

Kim Henderson, “Beans, Bullets, and Band-Aids” , January 2025.

“Tortured fear and stupid confidence are the preferred states of mind.” That’s a remark from Screwtape, the demon, in C.S. Lewis’ book, The Screwtape Letters.He’s advising a younger demon on the mindset that they want to create for humanbeings. Either a tortured fear of the future, a sense that we’re living in Hell, or a stupid confidence that feels like we’re smart enough to create Heaven. The devil is satisfied with either of those approaches because they’re both different from what God has for us, to walk in the moment in His presence. It seems to me that this comment from Screwtape Letters is applicable tothe whole subject of artificial intelligence. Because we live in the tension between those who tell us that it is the greatest thing ever, that we are going to revolutionize mankind verses those who say the machines are coming and the Terminator series will no longer be science fiction, it’s real. The truth is somewhere in the middle. And so we need to talk about artificial intelligence, for one more week, to answer the question, “Can it be used to advance the Kingdom of God?”

Brad Littlejohn, “The right’s looming war over AI”, September 29, 2025.

Isaac Willour, “A reflexive fear of AI doesn’t serve Christ”, August 21, 2025.

Matthew Branaugh, “Generative AIIs All the Rage. Handle With Care”, July 25, 2023.