Blogaround

AI-generated image of white Jesus and the disciples taking a selfie at the Last Supper. Image source.

1. Christ is Risen - Matt Maher - Lyrics. One of my favorite Easter songs.

Readers, do you have any favorite Easter songs?

2. How Much Does Superhero Destruction Actually Cost? An Insurance Lawyer Reviews | Vanity Fair (January 20) I CANNOT EVEN TELL YOU how much I love this video. This is the EXACT CONTENT I want to see. This is what's missing from all the superhero movies- what happens to all the buildings/cars/etc that get destroyed? What happens in the aftermath of these big "exciting" superhero battles? Who pays for the damage? Do the Avengers have insurance? 

3. How Can This Puzzle Possibly Exist?? (March 19) 52-minute sudoku solve video.

4. Holy Saturday (April 7) "But that’s Sunday language and Sunday certainty and it doesn’t make much sense here on Saturday. Here on Saturday, we can hope it’s true and we may even try to believe it’s true, but we can’t know 'in fact' one way or another. Not now. Not on Saturday."

5. Chris Hedges: The Hypocrisy of the Christian Church (April 8) "Is Black Lives Matter a commodity, a piece of branding, or does it mean we will stand with those Black and Brown and Asian and white bodies in our prison gulags and internal colonies? This seminary may have removed the name of Samuel Miller, a slaveholder who used the gospel to perpetrate and defend a crime of Nazi-like proportions, from the seminary chapel, albeit only when students protested, but it embraces a billionaire who makes his fortune fleecing incarcerated men and women who work 40 hour weeks in prison and are paid, when they are paid, little more than a dollar a day."

6. Why AI isn’t an oracle of truth (April 10) "They’re the Platonic example of what philosopher Harry Frankfurt calls a bullshitter: a person who says whatever suits them in the moment, without regard to whether it’s true or even consistent with their past statements."