The Spiritual Dimension of the AI Age

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Technology does not answer the deepest questions. It sharpens them. Explorations at the intersection of faith, meaning, and the machine.

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Faith in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

I am a Christian writing in the AI age, and I find that the questions the technology is raising are not new questions. They are ancient questions in modern dress. And the ancient answers are, if anything, more useful now than they have ever been.

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What the Church Should Say About Artificial Intelligence

The people in our pews are using these tools every day, and receiving almost no wisdom about them from the community that shaped their deepest convictions. The conversation is happening. The church is mostly not in it.

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Prayer and Productivity in the AI Age: Recovering the Spiritual Disciplines That AI Cannot Automate

Productivity culture has crept quietly into the spiritual life, tempting us to optimise prayer and even to generate it. I want to make the case that the disciplines the machine cannot touch are exactly the ones this age needs most.

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Does God Care About Artificial Intelligence?

I hold genuine Christian faith and I do genuine technical work, and I have never found the two at war. From that unusual seat, one question keeps returning to me, the question most writers on either side quietly avoid. Does the God of Christian faith actually have anything to say about the machines we are now building?

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The Soul in the Age of Algorithms: What Faith Says About Who We Really Are

Soul is a word many thoughtful people quietly retired, embarrassed by how unscientific it sounds. And yet no one manages to live without it. We grieve as though a person has gone, not a set of processes. I want to recover the word, because the age of algorithms is exactly the age that cannot do without it.

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Why Faith Is Not Anti-Intellectual: A Case for Taking Both Seriously

I live in two worlds that many people assume cannot coexist. I do technically serious work, and I hold a genuine Christian faith, and I have never experienced the two as enemies. The assumption that you must choose between a rigorous mind and a believing heart is widespread, confident, and in my experience simply false. I want to make the case, from Port Harcourt, that taking both seriously is not a contradiction but one of the most honest positions a person can hold.

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What the Bible Actually Says About Work and Why It Changes Everything

I hold a Christian faith and I work seriously, and for a long time I kept those two things in separate rooms, treating my work as the necessary thing I did between the parts of life that actually mattered to God. Then I actually looked at what the Scriptures say about work, and it was far richer and more dignifying than I had been led to believe. I want to recover that theology, from Port Harcourt, because it changes how you carry every working day, and it is genuinely useful whether or not you share the faith.

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Faith and Doubt: Why They Belong Together and What Happens When You Separate Them

I have doubted, seriously and painfully, while holding a genuine faith, and for a long time I was ashamed of it, believing the doubt meant my faith was failing. I have since come to believe almost the opposite, that honest doubt is not the enemy of faith but its companion, and that the faith which tries to eliminate doubt becomes brittle and defensive and cannot survive real pressure. I want to write about this honestly, from Port Harcourt, as a gift to everyone who has been afraid to admit they are not sure.

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