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

"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/]

The Quiet Catechism: When AI Becomes the First Voice a Believer Hears

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] What happens to a soul that learns to seek guidance from something that can never actually know it? Millions of Christians are quietly outsourcing their most spiritually significant questions to AI and the church is largely silent. This episode examines the data, the history, and what pastors owe their people right now. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

What AI Is Really Giving Us (And What It Can't)

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] What if 900 million people turning to AI every week isn't really about productivity? This episode maps the three biggest consumer AI use cases onto three ancient longings -- for help, to be known, and to not be alone -- and asks what the church has to offer that no algorithm ever will. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]