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After working with a refugee resettlement agency, Caleb Miller is now organizing estate sales. His reflections on this shift in occupations: . .

Ken Hada: Even if I cannot patch every leak, I still may carry some water. After all, a leaking bucket is not necessarily an empty bucket. I guess I will have to refill it as often as I can.

Elizabeth Stice: We do not need more thought leaders, but more thoughtful human beings.

Christian McNamara: When people are trying this hard and still end up sleeping with their children on the floor of a storage room, something has gone seriously wrong with our society.

Owen Eastman: We have long drawn a dividing line between technology and humans, imbuing one with ethical responsibility and treating the other as merely contingent— therefore, technologies are “neutral” and it’s simply how they are used that matter.

Jeremiah Webster: AI is a technology that eliminates process. It offers the grail without the quest.

In today's piece, Joe Pitts writes about a few days spent in Birmingham, Alabama.

Hadden Turner: If you have ever prayed the Lord’s prayer, then you have prayed for the soil and its earthworms—even if you didn’t intend to.

Austin Hoffman: Science can only provide partial truths because it does not consider form or end.

Nadya Williams: Kids are good in a theological sense, always. Sometimes, however, their behavior is not what adults would call good.

Ryan Salyards: While Thoreau was by no means a Puritan, I think that similarities regarding the human occupation and the goodness of creation are evident in both.

Ben Christenson: While you can still go for a hike or dress up in tweed jackets and smoke pipes, I find my skepticism towards tech makes me often feel less like an Inkling and more like Chuck Magill from "Better Call Saul.".

In today's piece, John Coffey writes about American baseball and its particular connection to our places: "A team is from somewhere. Owners sell, players leave, but the place and the fans make up the fabric of the team.".

Joshua Pauling offers a review of Robert Skidelsky's book "Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.".

David Bannon: . Her heartfelt lament may sound like despair, and in a way it is, save for a crucial difference.

Raleigh Adams: Without the Incarnation, the philosopher’s death remains incomplete.

Austin Carty: There is something life-giving about rooting oneself in a single community—about investing ourselves in a mutual fund, so to speak.

RT @jeff_bilbro: In which I recommend essays by @Zheschool, @gracyolmstead, @Tyler_A_Harper, @mmjukic, @evelynquartz, @lauren_feiner, @nuke….

In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about identity, mundanity, and vaccines.

Ben Henson: The rift isn’t just about politics. It’s about pace, and place, and respect.