Most of us like to think of ourselves as fair-minded. We value evidence. We try to be reasonable. We believe we are open to correction. When bias is mentioned, we often imagine it as something obvious and external — a flaw in others, a problem “out there”, something that can be identified and fixed once …
Continue reading Bias and Blind Spots — An Invitation to Awareness
Series:February 2026 - Bias and Blind Spots
How Cognitive Bias Creeps Into Code
When we talk about bias in technology, the conversation often jumps straight to data. Training sets, sampling issues, skewed distributions — these are familiar and important concerns. But long before data enters the picture, bias has already been at work. It begins in the human mind. Every line of code is written by someone who …
Continue reading How Cognitive Bias Creeps Into Code
Search Me, O God: Naming Our Blind Spots (Ps 139:23–24)
There is something deeply unsettling about being truly seen. Most of us are comfortable with partial visibility — being known in ways we can manage, understood on our own terms, seen when we are prepared. What we resist is exposure: the uncovering of what we have not noticed, what we have avoided, or what we …
Continue reading Search Me, O God: Naming Our Blind Spots (Ps 139:23–24)
When Data Misleads Us: Bias in Datasets and Models
Data carries an aura of authority. Numbers feel solid. Charts look persuasive. Models produce outputs with an air of precision. In technical contexts, it is easy to assume that data-driven decisions are inherently fairer, more rational, and less biased than human judgment alone. But data does not speak for itself. Every dataset is the product …
Continue reading When Data Misleads Us: Bias in Datasets and Models
The Logs in Our Own Eyes (Matt 7:1–5)
Few of Jesus’ teachings are as memorable — or as uncomfortable — as his words about judgment: The image is deliberately exaggerated. A speck is small, irritating, easy to spot. A log is large, obstructive, impossible to miss — except, apparently, when it belongs to us. Jesus uses humour to make a serious point: we …
Continue reading The Logs in Our Own Eyes (Matt 7:1–5)
Bias in AI: How to Build More Just Systems
Artificial intelligence is often spoken about as though it were an independent agent — something that decides, learns, or optimises on its own. This language is seductive. It distances us from responsibility and creates the impression that bias in AI is a mysterious technical problem rather than a human one. But AI systems do not …
Continue reading Bias in AI: How to Build More Just Systems
Learning to See as Christ Sees
Much of the Christian life can be described as a journey of learning to see differently. We begin by seeing the world largely through our own needs, fears, habits, and assumptions. Over time — often slowly and unevenly — Christ invites us into a transformed vision. Not simply new beliefs, but a new way of …
Continue reading Learning to See as Christ Sees