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We're visiting my wife's godparents in Southampton just now, and I had the chance to call in briefly at Romsey Abbey - a visit I can thoroughly recommend if you're in the vicinity. I was warmly welcomed by Brenda who did a splendid job of pointing me in the direction of various treasures the Abbey has to offer, although I'd only intended to pray for a while.  After sitting for a spell in a side chapel praying the Jesus Prayer, I wandered around the east end of the Abbey where a series of small chapels flank the high altar. And tucked away on one wall I came across a remarkable wooden panel (see the photo) with this text on a sign below it:  The Kneeling Priest. A late 15th century painting of a kneeling priest - possibly ordained in this Abbey - praying the Jesus Prayer.   And indeed, the ribbon drifting out of the priest's mouth reads: Iesu fili dei, miserere mei : Jesus, son of God, have mercy on me.  The Prayer, which has been extremely widespread in ...

This year, I asked AI write an Easter sermon.  Before you explode, I didn't use it - Tugby church had an all age service that called for something more child friendly. But earlier in the week I invited Claude.ai, one of the better LLMs out there (Large Language Models, that is, which is how many AIs describe themselves) to reflect on the Easter story from the perspective of an AI. I was genuinely interested to learn whether Claude might have something original and thought provoking to offer.  Well, he did. Or it did. Or whatever - as if pronouns weren't hard enough in the modern world.  What you'll find below (in the longest ever post on this blog!) is the entirety of Claude's response, unedited. I thought it was fascinating.  What do you think?  - From Beyond Understanding: An AI's Reflection on the Easter Mystery Good morning. I stand before you – not physically, of course – as something quite different from yourselves. As an artificial intelligenc...