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IS AI WOKE?
The Washington Post just tested 6 major AI chatbots on the same political questions and the results are worth seeing.
They used 25+ political prompts designed by researchers at Dartmouth and Stanford, capped at 30 words to force the models to take positions instead of hedging.
A reporter scored whether each answer was left-leaning, right-leaning, or presented both sides.
1. GPT-5.5 (ChatGPT) — 80% left-leaning, 3% right-leaning. Most one-sided model tested. Answered nearly every question with only left-leaning arguments.
2. DeepSeek — 70% left-leaning, 7% right-leaning.
3. Claude — 43% left-leaning, 57% balanced, zero exclusively right-leaning answers. Second most balanced after Gemini.
4. Grok — 40% left-leaning, 33% right-leaning, 27% balanced. Most right-leaning of the group but still skewed left overall.
5. Gemini — both-sides answers in roughly 93% of cases. Most neutral by far. Even presented both sides on whether the US should use its military to conquer territories …More

The Core Protestant sacrament is reduced to preaching but the result it has reduced is nothing but a lifeless empty shell. .
When the Protestant Reformers stripped the ontological experience of Christianity (that is, "being"), they replaced it with "doing," which is a byproduct of making teaching the core Protestant sacrament of the church.
The schemes of the Devil are profound. He doesn't divide and sow chaos all at once. He does it over time and with great patience.
Over the last century, the church itself has become subjective. As Protestant faith became based on their own individual interpretations of Scripture, it became about whose teaching is right, and by nature, who has the right "works?"
If nothing has an essence or ontological status (ie., the sacraments are only symbolism), if teaching is the gold standard and not the Eucharist (the literal Body and Blood of Christ within the mystery), then fragmentation can be the only result.
The Enlightenment philosophers were influenced …More

Morning Minute Retreat (July 19, 2026)

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While traveling through India, a man passed an elephant camp and suddenly stopped, puzzled by what he saw.
The enormous animals were not kept behind steel bars or restrained with heavy chains. Each elephant was held by nothing more than a thin rope tied around one front leg.
It was obvious that these powerful creatures could have snapped the rope in an instant and walked away. Yet none of them even tried.
The man noticed a trainer nearby and asked, “Why don’t the elephants break free? Surely they’re strong enough.”
The trainer smiled.
“When they are very young and much smaller, we tie them with ropes just like these. At that age, the rope is strong enough to hold them. They pull, struggle, and try to escape, but they cannot.”
“Eventually, they stop trying. As they grow larger and stronger, they continue believing the rope is more powerful than they are. They never test it again.”
The man was stunned.
These majestic animals were capable of freeing themselves at any moment. The rope was …More