Category: The Jack Miller Project
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What Do You Mean, Everyone Dies?
Two AI interviews this month said everyone may die. Jack Miller would have asked what they mean by die. The Bible has three words for life, and the death these men fear is the smaller one.
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Make of Him What You Will
Jack Miller wrote in 1964 that American schools had adopted John Dewey’s doctrine of man: man is what can be made of him. The fear of artificial intelligence and the hope for it rest on that same doctrine. This essay follows Jack’s argument to the Christian doctrine of man, to Romans 1, and to the…
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The Question Nobody Would Answer
In 1964 Jack Miller wrote that American education had no doctrine of man and had adopted a rule against asking for one. The refusal to define the word woman at a 2022 confirmation hearing is that rule at work. What Jack said about it, and how he argued, from an unpublished three-volume manuscript.
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“I tend to go around and help God pick out the elect.”
Jack Miller wrote a man off as non-elect and pushed him as far away as he could. “I was really a preparationist with a vengeance.” The man’s name was Charles Brown, and he was converted anyway.
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Handing It On
The Gospel Coalition published its AI policy this week. I do not write for TGC, and I am writing this down to find out what I think. How I work, what Jack Miller did with new means, and why this is finally a question about justification.
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Read Your Bible
On the road to Emmaus the risen Christ opens the Scriptures to two grieving men and shows them the whole book is about Him — and their hearts burn before they know who He is. An essay on Luke 24:13–43, the second of four on how we continue in the new life.