Obadiah Mariona, who works for Heritage College and Seminary while finishing his master’s degree, joins the hosts to ask how AI is changing education. Andrew brings a study where homework scores rose and exam scores fell, Obadiah explains why he uses AI at work and not in his coursework, and Austin describes how seminary writing has changed since he graduated. Joel makes the case for personalized AI tutoring and Austin asks who can afford it, and the episode ends on authority, the church, and the Heritage Hub, which hosts seminary classes in local churches.
Michael Bothwell, one of the show’s new speakers, wrote his paper for Andrew’s technology course on gluttony, and joins the hosts to define it. Calorie trackers, Strava, a smart scale and a keto diet; whether the drive-thru is really the problem; why churches that fast also need to feast; and how two of the hosts changed their minds about Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs.
The three hosts are back at the end of the summer, and the news has piled up. Meta settled with forty-seven state attorneys general for up to $17 billion, and Austin walks through what the company actually conceded, why those concessions leave the core product intact, and how Meta turned its own loss into a strike at Snap, TikTok, and YouTube. Andrew noticed that Claude’s memory feature excludes religious beliefs, which leaves a secular default sitting underneath everything else it personalizes, and Joel explains what really happened when models “escaped the sandbox,” whether a VPN is worth paying for, and why an ordinary church is an easy target.