The Great AI & Spiritual Divergence

The 'Instant Everything' Problem

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] What happens to the soul when every hard question comes with an instant answer? AI delivers information on demand. But formation has never moved that fast. This week, we explore the spiritual cost of frictionless faith, why God will not be googled, and what the church can offer that no algorithm can. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

Ordinary Time, On Purpose

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] The AI news cycle doesn't have a Sabbath mode. This week, Anthropic filed toward a trillion-dollar valuation. SpaceX and OpenAI follow soon. The noise is real, and it's accelerating. But the church just entered Ordinary Time, the slow green season of formation. Drew explores what the liturgical calendar knows that Silicon Valley doesn't. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

"Writing Software, Or Midwifing a Deity?"

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] Venture capitalist Bill Gurley says "Anthropic isn't writing software, they're midwifing a deity." Is he right? This episode traces the surprising parallel between AI's Recursive Self-Improvement and Christian sanctification, and reveals why this point is both where the analogy breaks down and where the gospel gets most interesting. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

Magnificent Humanity: What Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Means for Your Faith and the Future of AI

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] What happens to your soul when a pope steps into the AI conversation and names what you've been feeling all along? Today, Drew unpacks Pope Leo XIV's landmark encyclical Magnifica Humanitas — a sweeping theological response to artificial intelligence that asks every Christian to consider: are we building the Tower of Babel, or Jerusalem? https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

The Core Threat - "Averaged Out": When AI Interprets the Church, Vague Theology Disappears

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] What happens when someone asks AI about God instead of asking your church? The internet just changed its rules, from attention to interpretation. Drew explores why vague theology gets averaged out, what the church must learn from the marketing world, and how specificity and church FAQs might be the most spiritual act left. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]