AI & Spirituality
Drew Dickens
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Ordinary Time, On Purpose
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…
"Writing Software, Or Midwifing a Deity?"
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…
Magnificent Humanity: What Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Means for Your Faith and the Future of AI
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…
The Core Threat - "Averaged Out": When AI Interprets the Church, Vague Theology Disappears
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…
The Quiet Catechism: When AI Becomes the First Voice a Believer Hears
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…
What AI Is Really Giving Us (And What It Can't)
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…
The Policy Gap: Why Churches and Families Need an AI Covenant Now
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…
The Great AI & Spiritual Divergence
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…
What Does It Mean To "Learn" : On AI, Pedagogy, and the Wisdom That Still Requires a Teacher
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ What does it mean to truly learn something when AI can recall any fact, explain any concept, and complete almost any task on demand? In this episode, Drew explores…
Did God Actually Say...? (or, Why AI Makes Us Feel Creepy)
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ What if the most unsettling question of the digital age — "Is this AI?" — is actually the oldest question in the Bible? From the serpent's whisper in Genesis 3 to…
(Part 2) Interview with James Poulter, AI Ethicist
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ What if the church were leading the AI conversation—not waiting to be invited? In part 2 of my interview, James Poulter argues there's a spiritual imperative to pick…
Who Gets To Name The Devil?
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ What happens when a billionaire uses the language of the Antichrist to silence the people asking the hardest questions about AI? Peter Thiel is in Rome — delivering…
(Part 1) Interview with James Poulter, AI Ethicist
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ What happens when the tools we trust reflect the values we haven't examined? Drew and James Poulter explore AI ethics, military guardrails, and why people of faith…
(Part 2) TIME MAGAZINE: What We're Part Of — and Whether We Chose It
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ What if the AI tool you used to write Sunday's sermon is now powering classified military drones? This episode follows the grassroots resistance rising against Big…
(Part 1) TIME MAGAZINE: When The Chatbot Answers First (Part 1)
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ The Resistance Angle: What happens when MAGA voters and Democratic socialists march together? They're fighting the same thing: AI moving too fast while ordinary…
"Something Big Is Happening" (Part 2): What Makes Us Human
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ If AI can reason, create, and even make ethical decisions—what's left that makes us distinctly human? But beneath the debate over AI hype lies a deeper question: Is…
"Something Big Is Happening" (Part 1)
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ Where was your identity anchored before AI became a headline? A viral essay sparked fear about AI replacing jobs. But fear is a doorway, not a destination—your…
🌙 A Mirror Built from Shards: When Machines Made of Our Pain Are Asked to Heal It
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ Have you ever confessed something to AI you couldn't tell a real person? Millions now use ChatGPT for therapy—making it possibly America's largest mental health…
URGENT: AI Clawdbot...just made a god
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ AI just created its own religion and its growing faster than most churches! If you'd like to learn more, Drew unpacks this fascinating topic with greater clarity and…
UPDATE: Clawdbot: When the Bots Build Their Own Babel
https://drewdickens.substack.com/ If you'd like to learn more, Drew unpacks this fascinating topic with greater clarity and nuance, along with a few practical takeaways, in the extended version on…
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