Michael S. Graham
@msgwrites
Program Director for The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. Executive Producer for As in Heaven podcast. Author of The Great Dechurching.
Jim Davis and I are giving away something we are proud of - a toolkit to help local church leaders. This data-driven resource will help your leadership team close the back door, open the front door, & send your members out better equipped. Brief thread: pages.thegospelcoalition.org/rechurching-to…
Excellent read from @arthurbrooks on Harvard’s new large Global Flourishing Study. Happiness is down especially among young people in highly secular countries but there’s likely happy young people who are outliers among those who still go to church. apple.news/AlsBfskggRceeR…
This article from @p_emory on was excellent: thegospelcoalition.org/article/scotti…
I like the message here. This would have been a powerful ad campaign for Allyson Felix a few years ago.
Priorities unchanged. Another major secured. The wins keep coming on and off the course for Scottie Scheffler
Both what David and Scottie have to say here is worth your consideration:
Everybody knows the pain of failure, but what's surprising is the pain of success. The sneaky promise of ambition is the idea that someday, once you've achieved enough, the void inside you will magically disappear. On paper, the idea of achieving your way to fulfillment makes…
A lot of interesting new insights here from this survey:
📊New Poll Alert‼️ Fascinating findings on... - Decline of 3rd places - Shift in attitudes on gay rights, immigration and free speech - Single men lack physical affection - Young men turn against pornography - How friendship helps dating
Did you know that The Carson Center has ten essays on crucial themes that run through the Bible? 🤔 Please share this link far and wide, as these essays are a treasure. 💎 thegospelcoalition.org/essays/
The MAID conversation is coming to the USA and it is a always good time to reflect on Heidelberg:
My Credo column in today’s @thetimes: God is an inconvenient truth in debate on assisted death.
This is one of the wildest stories I’ve ever heard and is a must listen. Grab the tissues as it’s a rollercoaster: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rec…
Excellent read here from Glenn Wishnew: lakelight.com/reads/on-the-v…
“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.” nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…
Been using $GOOGL Gemini Pro 2.5 beta this entire week and putting identical prompts into @OpenAI Deep Research and it isn’t even close. Gemini Pro 2.5 does laps around Deep Research for literally ONE TENTH THE PRICE. I’m not sure why anyone is paying for DR right now.
This is one of those rare must listen to podcast episodes where @DouthatNYT interviews an ex-OpenAI engineer. Lots to consider about AGI/ASI, consciousness, the future of democracy/economics/labor. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/int…
I would appreciate an entire @starwars season on the backstory of Luthen Rael starring Stellan Skarsgard.
Stellan Skarsgård is one of the greatest actors of our time. He is serially underrated.
This was a good book review from @Seth_Troutt on @cbradedwards excellent new book: thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/reason…
Now is a good time to reread this 2024 article by Alan Noble: thegospelcoalition.org/article/chatbo…
“He would listen to the bot over me.” “It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.” “Am I delusional?” Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
I love reading these kinds of reflections. The church isn’t perfect but it’s where we find grace, Jesus, and His imperfect family. Jesus is the one thing in life that doesn’t over promise and under deliver:
Question for those who frequently speak publicly: What questions do you ask yourself for self-evaluation after you speak? Here are mine: 1. What did I learn? 2. What did I say that landed? 3. What questions did people ask that I didn’t have answers to?
It's hard not to be dystopian about these types of tech use cases brought to us by the same people who fractured society in the West with impunity. The church *could* be in a good position to re-humanize humanity in the face of dramatic economic, relational, and tech shifts.
Zuckerberg explaining how Meta is creating personalized AI friends to supplement your real ones: “The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15.”