The Algorithm in the Assembly

The Algorithm in the Assembly

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] A German congregation watched an AI preach. A Swiss chapel put an AI Jesus in a confessional. Now every church must answer the question underneath: what is the church, actually? Drew explores how AI is reshaping preaching, pastoral care, and governance, and why the assembly itself can never be generated. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

The Ministry of One Shepherd With 1,000 Hands

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] Silicon Valley says one person plus AI can now run a billion-dollar company. This spring, someone tried, and the unraveling stunned everyone. From Jethro's intervention to the circuit riders, Drew traces what shepherds can delegate, what must stay human, and why trust is ministry's whole product. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

The Day It Switches Off

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] When a government directive switched off the world's most powerful AI for three weeks, millions felt something unexpected: withdrawal. Drew traces the fast nobody chose through wilderness manna, Egypt's horses, and silent medieval bells, asking what our scramble for substitutes reveals, and how interruption becomes introduction to the God who stays. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

The Ghost in the Feed

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] The internet has quietly stopped being human. Most content is now synthetic, AI companies are hiring philosophers to manage the fallout, and vulnerable people are turning to chatbots for guidance that belongs in a pastor's office. Drew asks: if Westminster answered 'what is a human for' in 1647, why are we letting Silicon Valley answer it now? https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]

The Temptation to Go Silent

https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/] What happens when you hand your voice to a machine and ask it to speak for you? A generation is being tempted to go silent, to outsource expression, identity, and even prayer. This week, Drew explores the theology of voice, the rough draft as sacred ground, and the God who still insists on the stuttering prophet. https://drewdickens.substack.com/ [https://drewdickens.substack.com/]