Passing Through Digital Babylon

Bill Gates on the Threat of Digital Babylon (and the Christian’s Unique Hope)

This Week in Digital Babylon: Bill Gates Against AI (?),the passing of Wendell Berry, and more.

Sep 4 • Austin Gravley

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August 2026

Why Meta Wins in Their Historic Settlement

Plus: Passing Through Digital Babylon is going paid. $1 a month gets you weekly editions of This Week in Digital Babylon and more.

Aug 27 • Austin Gravley

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The Tower of Babel: The Prologue to Digital Babylon

The Tower of Babel isn’t just a weird one-off event. It is the prologue to a story you and I are living in today. Plus: all about AI omniscience and…

Aug 20 • Austin Gravley

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You Don’t Want to Wait Until a Crisis Hits Your Church to Have a Culture of Honest Answers to Honest Questions

An expansion of “How a Google Voice Number Transformed My Youth Ministry” for MereOrthodoxy. Plus: ASMR, Influencers, and PowerWash Simulator for This…

Aug 6 • Austin Gravley

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July 2026

C.S. Lewis on Pangram and AI Writing

Love (writing) and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken (by AI writing). Plus, introducing "This Week in Digital Babylon (And Other Things to…

Jul 30 • Austin Gravley

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Will "You" Survive Digital Babylon?

You cannot take your digital self with you when you die. Do you want to wait until you stand before the Lord to know who you truly are?

Jul 23 • Austin Gravley

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On Taking the TV Out of the Living Room, One Year Later

This one step did not immediately change our lives, but it created the possibility for our lives to be changed–which is exactly what happened.

Jul 16 • Austin Gravley

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April 2026

On AI and Coffee Pots

A newborn-sleep-deprived analogy

Apr 16 • Austin Gravley

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Ten Thoughts on the Historic Meta-Google Verdict

An important event, but the empires remain strong and the epoch carries on.

Apr 8 • Austin Gravley

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Digital Babylon and the State of the Internet

On my new project with Mere Orthodoxy

Apr 6 • Austin Gravley

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December 2025

2025 Albums and Books of the Year

Or my personal selections, anyway.

Dec 31, 2025 • Austin Gravley

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November 2025

Digital Babylon and AI Genetics

The walls of tinkering with the fundamentals of life itself are besieged by Digital Babylon.

Nov 10, 2025 • Austin Gravley

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