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Love Without Understanding
Consider the simple, human need for recognition: the willingness to acknowledge another person’s inner world as valid, and their preferences and orientations as worthy of existing. This should not be hard. It is no more difficult than recognizing ...
Post · November 22, 2025
What Makes Us Human in the Age of AI?
As AI learns to speak, create, and think like us, what remains uniquely human? A reflection on creativity, empathy, and purpose in the AI era.
ChatGPT5 Generated Illustration. The model has been given the essay as a context.
It can be said with...
Post · November 21, 2025
Speculating About the Mind of Jesus
This morning I found myself asking a peculiar question: What kinds of meals might Jesus have eaten?
That curiosity led me down an unexpected culinary trail on the internet—interesting enough in its own right—but it soon opened into a deeper, far m...
Post · November 21, 2025
The Parallel ways of Science and Arts
Honest scientific inquiry follows a clear arc. A scientist begins with a defined problem—a question that rouses the curiosity, resists easy answers and demands investigation. From this starting point, they seek out the appropriate methods to tack...
Post · November 19, 2025
On Love Between Individuals
I’m beginning to realize that all healthy, mutual relationships share a set of fixed pivot points—core mechanisms that do not change from one type of relationship to another. What varies is not the presence or absence of these pivots, but the degr...
Post · November 19, 2025
GSE faculty secure funding for groundbreaking research
Paris Wicker has been awarded a $59,126 grant from the National Institutes of Health for her project, “Relational Determinants of Well-Being and Institutional Support for Black and Indigenous College Students.”
https://ed.buffalo.edu/magazine/issu...
Post · November 19, 2025