Podcast with Lynn Cohick and Ingrid Faro on my Jeremiah research and on our book by Australian women scholars, Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture. thealabasterjar.podbean.com/…

We have released two new books to teach students how to write in Greek and Hebrew. You may find the free PDF downloads at our website in the comments.

Heb 1:2-3 tells of three ways the Son is related to all things: As the End, the Beginning, and the sustainer throughout. "His Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.... and he upholds the universe by the word of his power."

John Webster (GWM 2) tags all the bases on First John: abiding in Christ means that sin has "no deep ground" in what we are becoming, which doesn't mean regeneration is already brought to its fulfillment. I would add that 1 John envisions stages of growth (child, young, old).

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

What does it mean for scholars to write concisely? This week’s patter has a quick look. patthomson.net/2026/04/26/ke…

Part of a trilingual #Torah codex from the #CairoGenizah The yellow highlight is #Hebrew (Scripture) Green is #Aramaic (tradition) Blue is #JudaeoArabic (mother tongue) Red rectangle: word for 'your servants' in each language Yellow rectangle: word for 'my eye' in each language.

2 Samuel 14, 29-30 youtu.be/hmoPBWVPGTs?si=LLit… דרך @YouTube

Just uploaded seven more videos to my YouTube channel 'Hebrew Bible with Kim Phillips', working through the rest of #2Samuel14. There are now mini-videos working through the #Hebrew of every verse of that chapter, with grammatical and literary comments. I hope they're useful!

This from my dear friend Robert Imbelli quoting JHNewman: Thus in the Cross, and Him who hung upon it, all things meet; all things subserve it, all things need it. It is their centre and their interpretation. For He was lifted up upon it, that He might draw...all things unto Him.

I'm happy to submit this chapter for an edited book today.

Congratulations to my brilliant colleagues at ACU for this achievement! We are literally world-class in Theology, Divinity, and Religious Studies. This can only get better when our new colleagues join us later in the year. I am excited about the future.

This week on The Chick Report @KelleyMMathews is my guest talking about what gets lost in translation. youtu.be/xFZM0n8qlH0?si=lJbD…

Good to know that my @canterburypress book Galahad and the Grail has hit the top spot in Christian Poetry on its release. Thanks to all of you who put it there!