Keith Plummer
@xianmind.bsky.social
Christ-follower, husband, father, teacher. Interests: theology, apologetics, technology, and counseling. A generalist in a specialist's world.
We say one of the purposes of schools is to teach children to think critically. So why aren’t more educators thinking critically about edtech?
open.substack.com/pub/restorec...
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We Can't Ignore This for Another Decade
The Screen Problem Destroying Student Learning
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We say one of the purposes of schools is to teach children to think critically. So why aren’t more educators thinking critically about edtech?
open.substack.com/pub/restorec...
open.substack.com/pub/restorec...
“Once a country that prided itself on being the fastest to digitalize, Sweden is now proving that progress sometimes means knowing when you’ve taken a wrong turn, so you can double back and undo the mistake.”
There is much to learn from this—if we’re willing.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
There is much to learn from this—if we’re willing.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug.
How Sweden is rolling back the phone-based childhood
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“Once a country that prided itself on being the fastest to digitalize, Sweden is now proving that progress sometimes means knowing when you’ve taken a wrong turn, so you can double back and undo the mistake.”
There is much to learn from this—if we’re willing.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
There is much to learn from this—if we’re willing.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
“I want my generation’s pastors to succeed. But I believe that will require them to be better readers and learners.”
I think about this a lot. It’s heartening to see young believers like this thinking about it too.
www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/post...
I think about this a lot. It’s heartening to see young believers like this thinking about it too.
www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/post...
The Post-Literate Pastor
I want my generation’s pastors to succeed—but I believe that will require them to be better readers and learners.
www.thegospelcoalition.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“I want my generation’s pastors to succeed. But I believe that will require them to be better readers and learners.”
I think about this a lot. It’s heartening to see young believers like this thinking about it too.
www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/post...
I think about this a lot. It’s heartening to see young believers like this thinking about it too.
www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/post...
“Not all biases distort. Some biases are in place simply because the person is a good source of information which is why they have a point of view about the thing they’re being questioned on.” -Greg Koukl
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“Not all biases distort. Some biases are in place simply because the person is a good source of information which is why they have a point of view about the thing they’re being questioned on.” -Greg Koukl
“It’s not just chatbots built for companionship that are committing these harms. Even ‘educational’ chatbots have been found to be extremely dangerous to children.”
open.substack.com/pub/claremor...
open.substack.com/pub/claremor...
The AI Revolution is Coming for our Kids
A Tech Exit is more urgent and needed than ever
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“It’s not just chatbots built for companionship that are committing these harms. Even ‘educational’ chatbots have been found to be extremely dangerous to children.”
open.substack.com/pub/claremor...
open.substack.com/pub/claremor...
I spent the day with Christian K-12 educators at a conference whose theme was “Discipling Our Students in This Digital Age.” Pray for teachers.
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I spent the day with Christian K-12 educators at a conference whose theme was “Discipling Our Students in This Digital Age.” Pray for teachers.
Received these gifts from a dear friend yesterday.
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Received these gifts from a dear friend yesterday.
Where teleology is rejected, psychology suffers.
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Where teleology is rejected, psychology suffers.
I suspect that some Christians are embarrassed and/or disappointed that gentleness is listed among the fruit of the Spirit.
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I suspect that some Christians are embarrassed and/or disappointed that gentleness is listed among the fruit of the Spirit.
“O [Yahweh], my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” (Psalm 131:1-2 ESV)
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“O [Yahweh], my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” (Psalm 131:1-2 ESV)
“When reading declines, so does biblical literacy. Sermons become shallower because congregations can’t follow sustained argument. Devotions become thinner because minds can’t linger on truth.”
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achalmersblog.com/2025/10/30/l...
Losing Our Words: The Decline of Reading and the Rise of Reels
There’s a quiet crisis happening in our world today. It’s not new, but it’s growing—and it’s changing how we think, how we feel, and how we follow Jesus. It’s the slow decline of reading. Fewer and…
achalmersblog.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“When reading declines, so does biblical literacy. Sermons become shallower because congregations can’t follow sustained argument. Devotions become thinner because minds can’t linger on truth.”
achalmersblog.com/2025/10/30/l...
achalmersblog.com/2025/10/30/l...
Salvation is not limited to the cleansing of sin’s guilt but includes progressive cleansing from delighting in what God despises accompanied by delight in what one once despised.
November 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Salvation is not limited to the cleansing of sin’s guilt but includes progressive cleansing from delighting in what God despises accompanied by delight in what one once despised.
This is an informative look at the accelerating rise of AI-generated writing and its current and potential adverse effects on real authors, consumers, and society at large.
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AI Writing is Taking Over
YouTube video by Jared Henderson
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November 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is an informative look at the accelerating rise of AI-generated writing and its current and potential adverse effects on real authors, consumers, and society at large.
youtube.com/watch?v=ew7Q...
youtube.com/watch?v=ew7Q...
“We also need to educate children about AI’s incentives, starting in grade school…they now need to understand how AI has the power to shape what they see, buy, and believe—and who profits from that power.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Validation Machines
Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“We also need to educate children about AI’s incentives, starting in grade school…they now need to understand how AI has the power to shape what they see, buy, and believe—and who profits from that power.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“Now, the technology is also being used for violent threats — priming them to maximize fear by making them far more personalized, more convincing and more easily delivered.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“Now, the technology is also being used for violent threats — priming them to maximize fear by making them far more personalized, more convincing and more easily delivered.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
“The gospel is not just a message for unbelievers. Romans demonstrates that Paul believed God strengthens believers with the gospel when it is fully proclaimed and its implications for their lives are explained.”
www.crossway.org/articles/5-m...
www.crossway.org/articles/5-m...
5 Myths About the Book of Romans
Scholars continue to debate the purpose of Romans. However, the reasons Paul wrote Romans are hidden in plain sight in the opening and closing sections of the letter.
www.crossway.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“The gospel is not just a message for unbelievers. Romans demonstrates that Paul believed God strengthens believers with the gospel when it is fully proclaimed and its implications for their lives are explained.”
www.crossway.org/articles/5-m...
www.crossway.org/articles/5-m...
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1 ESV)
The forfeiture of future divine praise is too great a price to pay for present human praise.
The forfeiture of future divine praise is too great a price to pay for present human praise.
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1 ESV)
The forfeiture of future divine praise is too great a price to pay for present human praise.
The forfeiture of future divine praise is too great a price to pay for present human praise.
“At a time when educational institutions are grappling with the intrusion of machine learning into classrooms and homework assignments, the professors said they decided to use the episode to teach a lesson in academic integrity.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“At a time when educational institutions are grappling with the intrusion of machine learning into classrooms and homework assignments, the professors said they decided to use the episode to teach a lesson in academic integrity.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
“Sin trades God for another good. To see this same folly from another angle, consider that sin cuts man off from his highest good and it is utterly impotent to give the good it promises. Sin backs the wrong horse 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.” -James Dolezal tabletalkmagazine.com/posts/sin-is...
Sin is Cosmic Treason: Our Supreme Folly | Tabletalk
Without sin there would be no Christianity as we know it. There could be worship and religion without sin, but there would be no record of redemption, no incarnation, no second Adam, no song of the re...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“Sin trades God for another good. To see this same folly from another angle, consider that sin cuts man off from his highest good and it is utterly impotent to give the good it promises. Sin backs the wrong horse 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.” -James Dolezal tabletalkmagazine.com/posts/sin-is...
“The Amish have a bit of wisdom because they design a life 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 and then incorporate the tech that allows them to live that life. But we integrate technological advancement 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 and allow it to direct, distort and at times even destroy our dearest designs.” open.substack.com/pub/mperrone...
Not Everything Is A "Me-Problem"
An Anti-Tech Screed That Is Neither Anti-Tech, Nor Screed
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“The Amish have a bit of wisdom because they design a life 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 and then incorporate the tech that allows them to live that life. But we integrate technological advancement 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 and allow it to direct, distort and at times even destroy our dearest designs.” open.substack.com/pub/mperrone...
Let us strive harder to bless than impress.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Let us strive harder to bless than impress.
“People deserve more than just a company’s word that it has addressed safety issues. In other words: Prove it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Opinion | I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don’t Trust Its Claims About ‘Erotica.’
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“People deserve more than just a company’s word that it has addressed safety issues. In other words: Prove it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
.15% of its 800 million weekly users talk to it about suicidal plans and/or intent with a similar percentage showing “heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT.”
techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/o...
OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly | TechCrunch
OpenAI released data on just how many of ChatGPT's users are facing mental health challenges, and how it's addressing them.
techcrunch.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
.15% of its 800 million weekly users talk to it about suicidal plans and/or intent with a similar percentage showing “heightened levels of emotional attachment to ChatGPT.”
techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/o...
Not all truths need/have a proof text.
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Not all truths need/have a proof text.
Loved the first two!
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Loved the first two!