AI & Spirituality

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/]

The Policy Gap: Why Churches and Families Need an AI Covenant Now

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] What happens when the most spiritually formative conversations in your child's life are happening with a machine — and your church has nothing to say about it? The silence isn't wisdom. It's abdication. This episode explores why churches and families need an AI covenant now, and how to build one. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

The Great AI & Spiritual Divergence

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] What if the church's biggest AI problem isn't using it wrong — it's not knowing what it's actually become? While pastors draft emails with language models, Silicon Valley's agents are resisting shutdown, military targeting systems are raising accountability questions, and 75% of AI's economic gains flow to a handful of companies. The Great Divergence is here. Is the church paying attention? https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]