Golden Gate University

Christian Power and Religious Coercion: Christian nationalism and the global struggle over conscience

No religious community acquires authority over another person's conscience by claiming to possess the truth. I argue that Christian nationalism must be judged by the powers it seeks and the costs it imposes on refusal, and that the same standard applies to Islamic coercion. The a...

Christian Power and Religious Coercion: Christian nationalism and the global struggle over conscience

No religious community acquires authority over another person's conscience by claiming to possess the truth. I argue that Christian nationalism must be judged by the powers it seeks and the costs it imposes on refusal, and that the same standard applies to Islamic coercion. The a...

The ethical friction deficit: rethinking contestability in entrepreneurial technology governance

Purpose This paper aims to develop the Ethical Friction Deficit (EFD) to explain a distinct ethical risk in technology-enabled entrepreneurial organizations: the loss of designed points at which consequential decisions can be contested before they become action, as digital system...

Five-Dimension AI Readiness Assessment: framework reference brief

85% of AI deployment failures trace back to a gap in one of five operational dimensions, not the AI technology itself. The Five-Dimension AI Readiness Assessment identifies the blocker before budget is committed. Five operational dimensions, scored 1–4, that predict AI deployment...

Four-Question AI Governance Baseline: framework reference brief

Four diagnostic questions that expose structural AI governance gaps before deployment, not after incident. Applied across Singapore IMDA, Saudi NDMO, and Oman TRA regulatory environments. Four diagnostic questions that expose structural governance gaps before deployment, not afte...

The Blind Spot Between the Cross and the Rainbow

Independent interdisciplinary essay examining Christian identity, LGBTQ identity, religious belonging, sexual stigma, Pride, and asymmetric identity scrutiny. Version 1.1 preserves the original prose and both original images while adding a clearly labeled theological counterargum...

The Bridge Is Artificial. The Encounter Is Not.

This essay examines whether generative-AI-assisted communication is inherently less authentic than an introduction made through conventional means. Beginning with a disagreement arising from an AI-assisted email, J.C. Howard distinguishes assistance from substitution, motive from...

The visibility–protection gap in enterprise resource planning governance: shadow systems and information quality degradation

Purpose This article examines the governance conditions under which operational knowledge migrates from a mandated enterprise resource planning system into operationally trusted parallel records, developing the Visibility–Protection Gap as a governance configuration. Design/metho...