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Grammarly, AI Editors, ChatGPT, and the Pedagogical Perils of Writing with Confidence

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. In one of Grammarly’s ubiquitous advertisements, a hapless writer uses the popular AI-based editing software to improve an interpersonal communication. The furrowed brows accompanying the initial attempt (“we might be…

David I. SmithMay 31, 2023

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Featured Language and Culture Learning Reflection on Scripture

Hearing, Speaking, Learning.

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. Some years ago, I was sitting in my campus office minding my own business when the phone rang. It turned out to be Matt, a student who had been in…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Featured Reflection on Scripture Spiritual Development Voices from the Past

Learning to Pray

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced by permission. The way we pray says quite a lot about us. Our prayers and the way we form them project a story about what ought to be. When we draw upon…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

Faith and Teaching Reflection on Scripture Talks, Lectures, Interviews

Identifying With Those Who Suffer: Psalm 6

Dr. David Smith encourages the Wheaton community to identify with those who suffer by praying with those people rather than praying for those people through Psalm 6.

David I. SmithSeptember 30, 2016

Articles & Essays Reflection on Scripture

How not to bless the nations.

In Genesis 12 Abram is called to be a blessing to the nations. In Genesis 20 he is just the opposite, and the foreigner who was supposed to be pagan, lustful, and violent turns out to be the one who hears God's voice and has…

David I. SmithDecember 16, 2005

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Reflection on Scripture

Psalm 113: The Movie

This short reflection was published in Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought in 2005. More recently it served as the basis for designing a learning activity called Cosmic Zoom as part of the FAST project on faith and science teaching. A short film that aired…

David I. SmithJanuary 16, 2005

Articles & Essays Reflection on Scripture

Irony, Sovereignty and Cheeses

Why does the story of David and Goliath suddenly seem preoccupied with cheese? That's what I started wondering some years ago, and it led to this meditation on 1 Samuel 17. It was published in the Reformed Journal in June 2003, p.24. 1 Samuel 17:18…

David I. SmithJune 1, 2003

Articles & Essays Reflection on Scripture

Commentary: Luke 10:36

This brief commentary was published in the now discontinued British magazine Third Way in November 2000 (vol. 23, no.9, p.22). It still seems relevant as I post it here almost 20 years later and living in a different country. “Which of these three do you…

David I. SmithNovember 1, 2000

Reflection on Scripture Scholarship

What hope after Babel? Diversity and Community in Gen 11:1-9, Exod 1:1-14, Zeph 3:1-13 and Acts 2:1-13.

Does the Bible teach that we all spoke one language until a sinful rebellion created diversity? Or that redemption means one language in heaven? This article was first published in Horizons in Biblical Theology 18:2, 1996, 169 191 It grew out of an attempt to…

David I. SmithJanuary 1, 1996

Reflection on Scripture

Grammarly, AI Editors, ChatGPT, and the Pedagogical Perils of Writing with Confidence

Hearing, Speaking, Learning.

Learning to Pray

Identifying With Those Who Suffer: Psalm 6

How not to bless the nations.

Psalm 113: The Movie

Irony, Sovereignty and Cheeses

Commentary: Luke 10:36

What hope after Babel? Diversity and Community in Gen 11:1-9, Exod 1:1-14, Zeph 3:1-13 and Acts 2:1-13.

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