In "The Abolition of Man" and "That Hideous Strength," C. S. Lewis warned of the dangers of technological tinkering with people unrestrained by moral values. The realization that behind the universe lay a standard of right and wrong had played the major part in the beginnings of Lewis’s conversion to faith in Jesus Christ. The stock market has exploded with euphoria over developments in Artificial Intelligence, which can result in replacing humans with technology, while the transhuman dream looks to a time when AI can replace humanity altogether. In this context, the Inklings Fellowship will reflect on these matters with guidance from the Bible and the insight of the Inklings. Featuring music, worship, food, and good conversation with . . .
Ben Mitchell is a Christian ethicist who served as provost of Union University after teaching ethics at Union, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary after serving several churches as pastor. A popular speaker, Ben is the author of numerous articles and essays in scholarly and popular journals on matters related to bioethics with a focus on the dangers of transhumanism and AI.
Larry Parsley, who served for over two decades as a full-time pastor, is Clinical Professor of Chrisitan Ministry and the Director of Mentoring at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary. He is a contributor and speaker for Mockingbird Ministries, an organization devoted to connecting the Christian faith with the realities of everyday life, with whom he published An Easy Stroll through a Short Gospel: Meditations on Mark and The Living Color of Luke’s Gospel: A Devotional.
Don King has just published Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis. He has also written a number of books about C. S. Lewis, Joy Davidman, and Ruth Pitter, including C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse, Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter, and Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman.
Rebecca Poe Hays is Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures (Hebrew/Old Testament) Baylor University’s Truett Seminary. She is the author of The Function of Story in the Hebrew Psalter and has just completed Reading Resilience in the Psalms: Trauma, Healing, and the Strength to Survive to be published by Oxford University Press. She is also the co-editor of C. S. Lewis Remembered.
Hal Poe wrote the definitive, three-volume biography of the C. S. Lewis, Becoming C. S. Lewis, which is published by Crossway. He is the author of twenty books that deal with how the gospel intersects culture, including C. S. Lewis Remembered and The Inklings of Oxford.
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