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EP 74Mar 25, 2025

Choosing and Using GenAI as Christians

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

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EP 116Jun 16, 2026

How Should Pastors Use AI? (Scott Hurst)

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.

EP 112May 12, 2026

How Christians Can Harness the Power of AI

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

EP 97Dec 15, 2025

Reading and Teaching in an Age of AI

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

EP 34Aug 22, 2023

What Is PulpitAI? (Michael Whittle)

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.

EP 20Feb 10, 2023

Hey Siri, What Is ChatGPT?

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

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EP 118Jul 10, 2026

Books About Building for the Age of 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.

EP 115Jun 9, 2026

Is SEO Dead? The Evolution of Googling

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.

EP 113May 19, 2026

Does God Care if AI Does My Job?

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

EP 110Apr 21, 2026

Why John Piper Changed His Mind on AI

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.

EP 108Mar 31, 2026

An Honest Conversation About AI Chatbots (Bonnie Kristian)

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

EP 103Feb 3, 2026

AI Is Interpreting the Bible Now? (Jonas Kurlberg & Zoltan Schwab)

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