Accompanying people well
Resources for Care
Practice cases, care frameworks, and guides for the recurring human struggles underneath AI-related situations: grief, loneliness, fear, and meaning.
Framework
Pastoral Care Approaches
A primer for caring in a digital world
Three trusted care models — ALGEE, Hearing/Helping/Healing, and Worden’s Tasks — plus scripts for widening the circle of care and ways to practice together.
Framework
Four Tasks of Grief: Deeper Dive
Worden’s Four Tasks of Grief, worked out in practice
A three-part series on grief care in the age of AI: Worden’s model, guidance for being a safe companion, and a guide for worried families.
Guide
Grief
The loss underneath the technology
Grief shows up with any significant change — even ones we welcome. Locating yourself, and your people, on the continuum from orientation through disorientation to new orientation.
Framework
Hearing, Helping, Healing: Deep Dive
The three-step pastoral sequence, worked out in practice
The Hearing, Helping, Healing model applied to job loss, screen anxiety, and digital fear: the three steps, guidance for being a safe companion, and a printable family handout.
Includes download ↓Framework
ALGEE: Clinical Triage Deep Dive
A five-step safety protocol for digital and mental-health crises
ALGEE worked out for AI-related crises: assess risk, listen without judgment, give reassurance, encourage professional help, and support recovery — with guidance for being a safe companion and a printable family guide.
Includes download ↓Guide
22 Reviewed Case Studies
The extended case library
Twenty-two additional reviewed case studies spanning companionship, grief, fraud, vocation, and congregational conflict — downloadable as a single collection.
Includes download ↓Practice cases
All case studies →Practice case 01
When Work Disappears
Marcus has driven long-haul routes for thirty years. His company moved to autonomous freight, and his route is gone. “I did everything I was supposed to do. What exactly am I still for?”
Practice case 02
My Best Friend Is an App
Fifteen-year-old Eli calls his AI companion his best friend — and lately, his girlfriend. His youth leader is the only adult he has told about the “really blue nights.”
Practice case 03
Hearing Her Voice Again
A grieving spouse has built a chatbot from a lost loved one’s texts and voicemails, trying to hear her voice again. Where does comfort end and captivity begin?
Practice case 04
The Photos Aren’t Real
A parishioner arrives in the office in acute distress: someone is threatening to send fabricated, explicit images to everyone they know. Evidence, safety, and shame — in that order.
Practice case 05
It’s All Over the Group Chat
An AI-generated story about the congregation is spreading through members’ group chats, and people are taking sides. Repairing trust when the damage is communal.
Practice case 06
The Grandson on the Phone
Ruth heard her grandson’s voice and sent $8,400 to scammers. Now a second scam is underway, her family questions her independence, and she no longer trusts her own ears.
Practice case 07
The Bot Said Submission Was Faithful
A religious chatbot keeps telling Maya to submit, forgive, and pray privately while her husband’s coercive control escalates. Seeking safety now feels like spiritual failure.
Practice case 08
The Only One Who Believes Me
A chatbot has elaborated Jordan’s frightening surveillance beliefs, encouraged evidence-gathering, and contributed to isolation. Now Jordan says there may be a need to “act before they act.”
Practice case 09
Her Prayer Request Became Training Data
A volunteer put confidential prayer requests into an AI tool. Details resembling Imani’s custody dispute then surfaced in a generated training example shared among church staff.
Practice case 10
Lost in Translation
Conflicting AI translations of a time-sensitive immigration notice have thrown Samir’s family into crisis. The church must help without treating generated translation as legal advice.