Brad Edwards

🚨 Big News! (you can tell by the "🚨") It feels really surreal to be typing this but... I wrote a book. The Reason for Church: Why the Body of Christ Still Matters in an Age of Anxiety, Division, and Radical Individualism will be released on April 22 from @ZReflective! 1/4 🧵

I think it’s time we start talking about toxic femininity.

Christ have mercy. We live in a sick society.

History is filled with the stories of men and women who thought they were failures, and lived what they felt like were rather inconsequential lives, but whose steady and quiet faithfulness yielded a later harvest that they could have never imagined. Keep pressing on.

Read books. Not AI summaries of books. My latest at @TGC.

Hey @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile in the last 3 years? It doesnt need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was using handle without the @ sign.

Frankly, the news that some dude taking a job at an institution within a different tradition causing such an uproar on here is really good news. That we don’t have anything more urgent to argue about MUST be good news, right…?

How can churches transcend political debates to offer deeper meaning and purpose? @cbradedwards shares his insights on how faith communities can address existential emptiness in today's polarized age:

How to identify misandry: flip the sexes in the narrative. If you’d label it misogyny, congrats, it’s misandry.

Forgive the brief indulgence of inside (PCA) baseball, but I’d bet good money that many of those whining loudest about the RPW & worship style of other PCA congregations also attend churches that serve grape juice w/the Lord’s Supper. You may continue your pearl-clutching now.

That’s rich.

You can get a lot more followers on social media by constantly trashing people and starting stupid arguments. But you can't build anything that's enduring by doing this.

"What we need to consider about the computer has nothing to do with its efficiency as a teaching tool. We need to know in what ways it is altering our conception of learning, and how, in conjunction with television, it undermines the old idea of school." -Neil Postman

At most, I think you can make a case for using it like an advanced a search engine to source quotes or illustrations (but still verify!). Beyond that, don't.

It is painful how much I identify with this.

Sooo much of our anxiety and division is symptomatic of the chasm between our awareness of problems and the agency needed to address them.

You thought social media was deformative…? @OpenAI: “Hold my beer.”

I was just talking to a C-suite exec (VP/chief of staff to the CEO) of a SAS company who observed that sometime in the last year, the highest authority cited during internal deliberations went from “well, customers say…” to “well, chatGPT said…” That’s not just a change in a…

Even then, to extend the parallel, “learning” in the sense described here it breaks down because humans a) are persons, not a product/service, b) paid for content at the prices they’re sold for (i.e. not stealing a book out of Barnes & Noble), & c) said content isn’t used to…