AI

Andrew and Joel trade summer reading, seven books that shaped how they build. Range and kind vs wicked worlds, The Lean Startup on testing a hypothesis instead of debating it, Culture Making on why creating beats critiquing, and the evolutionary neuroscience the frontier labs are mining for the next breakthrough.

Andrew and Joel sit down with Scott Hurst, a self-described 'average' Toronto pastor, to hear how the AI conversation actually sounds between pastors. Less 'should AI write your sermon' (nobody is) and more rental agreements, meeting minutes, the capacity for mystery, and the pain points a shepherd should never automate away.

SEO is dead, so Andrew reframes the whole question: communication is how we love our neighbor, which means choosing the right medium. The hosts work through email, group texts, church apps like Planning Center, a Google Voice text ministry, and the new robots.txt era of search.

Wyatt Graham returns to read Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas — not the Pope “coming out against AI” but Catholic social teaching applied to the new thing. Technology is never neutral under the condition of the conditioners, the few oppress the many through its instruments, and prudential reasoning is the one thing AI cannot do.

Automation, vocation, and whether God cares if a machine takes your work.

A constructive case for using AI well in Christian life and work.

A major Meta lawsuit and what it signals for platforms, youth, and accountability.

A year after his ChatGPT prayer went viral, John Piper revisits AI on David Platt's Radical podcast. Austin and Joel hear less of a reversal than a sharpening. AI is a real kind of intelligence, and what makes us human is the spirit, not the feeling.

Cars as technology: what the automobile did to place, the body, and neighborly life.

Bonnie Kristian on AI chatbots, companionship, and what is real in a conversation with a machine.

John Knox on the state of the faith-and-technology conversation right now.

A grab-bag on AI in warfare, kids and tech, and a wild news cycle.

Autonomous agents are here; the hosts on agency, responsibility, and concern.

Jonas Kurlberg and Zoltan Schwab on AI, hermeneutics, and who gets to interpret Scripture.

Living faithfully as exiles in a digital Babylon, and what comes after the diagnosis.

Predictions for the year in tech, held with sober hope rather than hype or doom.

A year-end map of where AI actually landed in 2025.

What happens to reading, writing, and teaching when AI can do the homework.

Why faithful Christians land differently on tech, and how to hold disagreement well.

Advent waiting against the technological impulse to seize, optimize, and never wait.

Setting the tone: neither breathless nor fearful, how to talk about AI with wisdom.

Is the AI boom a bubble or a turning point? The hosts weigh the signals.

Michael Graham on benchmarking AI models for Christian use and what the results reveal.

What the gods of Silicon Valley believe, and how their faith shapes the tech they build.

A bracing theological conversation on spiritual realities, AI, and the limits of the demonic.

Daniel Manary on actually learning and building AI as a Christian engineer.

A round-table of Christian dads on screens, summer, and raising kids with wisdom.

Reading the latest gentle-singularity optimism against a Christian account of human nature.

Paul Hoffman on AI in ministry, the shepherd's irreplaceable work, and what machines cannot pastor.

When trust in the machine slips into worship, and how a Psalm-shaped discernment names it.

Responding to Wes Huff's history of technology and Christianity, and what a tech-savvy faith looks like.

A practical conversation on when and how to reach for generative AI with a clear conscience.

Pastor Luke Simmons on making local, faithful digital content for a real congregation.

Caleb Wait on building durable institutions, not just audiences, in digital ministry.

Brad Littlejohn and Clare Morell on policy, parenting, and a positive vision for family tech.

The hosts lay out what they expect from AI, platforms, and the church's tech in the year ahead.

Alastair Roberts reframes amplification, print, and even AI through the incarnation, where God's chosen medium is human flesh.

Reading Dario Amodei's "Machines of Loving Grace" essay: the optimistic AI future, weighed against a Christian anthropology.

Internet culture is not a subculture anymore. The hosts on how the online has become the air we all breathe.

Timothy Jacobs brings Aquinas to the question of whether AI can think, feel, or love, and where the boundaries really lie.

Cam Pak on building Faith Tools, a directory of Christian apps, without turning faith into self-service.

Kevin Tuer makes the case for designing ethics into AI from the start, and for innovation as a form of stewardship.

Devin, Sora, and a flood of releases: the hosts try to make sense of an AI moment moving faster than anyone can track.

Joseph Minich explains how managed, mediated modern life quietly erodes the felt presence of God, and how hospitality restores it.

From CES 2024, the hosts look past chatbots to embodied AI and robots, and ask how Jesus would meet a machine with a body.

Seven predictions for the year in tech, held with sober hope rather than hype or doom.

As OpenAI's board drama unfolds, the hosts read accelerationism and caution through a Christian frame.

What is a teen worth to a platform? A conversation on youth, Instagram, and how parents and pastors can respond.

Ian Harber joins to weigh AI companions, a fragmenting internet, and what is real when the feed is full of bots.

A self-reflective episode on the show's own purpose, and whether faithful witness is better served by words or by building.

PulpitAI's CEO makes the case for extending sermons into devotionals with AI, and faces the question of what only a local pastor can do.

Threads launches against Twitter, and the hosts ask whether yet another platform can be used without using us.

Chris Martin on the anxiety social media breeds, the gap between our front- and backstage selves, and how churches should show up online.

ChatGPT has arrived. The hosts ask what it means that we make AI in our own image, and where moral agency really lives.

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra on a theology of play: when do games simply delight us, when do they disciple us, and how should parents think about both?

FaithTech founder James Kelly on the difference between exploitative, responsible, and redemptive technology, and why lament belongs in the conversation.

An introduction to AI for Christians: how it actually works, where the hype outruns reality, and the questions personhood raises for machines that 'think.'

As Musk circles Twitter, the hosts read the platform's decontextualized speech against ancient wisdom about news, words, and the formation of attention.

Two Christians in the tech industry on faithful presence, the weight of the work, and what it means to labor from rest rather than for it.

Why do faithful Christians disagree about technology? Wyatt Graham brings Romans 14 and theological triage to a framework that fits almost every tech debate.

If distraction is engineered, how do we push back? Five counter-practices for reclaiming attention in an economy built to fragment it.

Smart thermostats and sensors promise a frictionless home, but what is all that optimization forming us toward? A conversation about the hearth, convenience, and love.

Money is a technology too. From fiat to Bitcoin, the hosts trace the moral grain of currency and ask what generosity looks like in a crypto age.

Are our limits a problem to fix or a gift to receive? Scott MacLellan joins to untangle finitude from sin, and productivity from rest.

Can we be fully present in a virtual world? A look at the metaverse through embodiment, the incarnation, and what actually makes us persons.

What does Silicon Valley believe about the meaning of life? The series opens by reading Mark Zuckerberg's vision of work against a theology of vocation, idolatry, and rest.