Author: Larry Sanger
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Deep Dive Bible: a new Bible study app
Today I’m launching a new, full-featured Bible study app—not a business enterprise, but a gift to the Church: A full-featured app made in six weeks? While I’m working on other projects? I’m almost as surprised as (I imagine) you are. So, here’s the story of how this project basically popped into existence. Well, maybe it…
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A few notes about Wikipedia’s article “Citizendium”
Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium This is yet another article that looks credible and authoritative to someone who knows little about the subject. But, in fact, it’s simply an awful article. For shame, Wikipedia, for shame. GradesOverall: D−Completeness: FCompetency: DNeutrality: FScholarship: C−Currency: FSimplicity: C Credentials: founder of Citizendium, co-founder of Wikipedia; other experience with online encyclopedia projects and…
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How to set up your LLM as a Bible study tutor
This post gives you a set of project instructions that turn any major LLM into a surprisingly competent Bible study tutor rooted in traditional, small-o orthodox Christianity. It is a companion to my earlier post, “How to Read the Bible All the Way Through for the First Time.” You copy the instructions, paste them into…
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WikiCritic comment: my recollection of the Seigenthaler incident
WikiCritic commentPage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_SeigenthalerRelevant credential: co-founder of WikipediaFirst-hand witness: I received a telephone call from John Seigenthaler, Sr. in the fall of 2005 regarding the defamatory content in his Wikipedia biography.Comment tags: talkback (maybe?) My comment is not a review of the article, but a little piece of history about it. It was, I vaguely recall,…
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WikiCritic review: Unmoved mover
This is a sample encyclopedia article review written to support both Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum and a new project I am working on for the Knowledge Standards Foundation. This page should illustrate what a fairly complete review of a Wikipedia article would look like, according to the recommended standard of the new WikiCritic system I am building.…
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Larry Sanger, Questions and Answers about Genesis
Larry Sanger, Questions and Answers about Genesis, written between April 2021 and September 2022; unpublished. pdf If you are interested in looking at this, please read the following preface. [more…]
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Wikipedia’s new CEO says “the door is open,” but they banned me for walking through it
This was initially an X.com thread. In it, I respond to a July 16, 2026 New York Times article on the Wikimedia Foundation’s pick for a new CEO. “The door is open” to “more dialogue” with conservatives, says new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan in remarks to the New York Times. In the article, there’s…
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Even Claude finds bias throughout Wikipedia
This afternoon, I performed a simple experiment with Claude Opus 4.8 Max. Prompt: “Define ten culture war topics, chosen as a group for breadth (not weighted toward any one discipline). Then look up the main Wikipedia article on each topic and read its lede section. For each, find the two most clearly biased statements it…
