Getting ready before the crisis
Clergy Formation
Self-reflection, theology, and workshop curricula that help ministers examine their own relationship with AI and prepare to accompany others.
Exercise
Caregiver Self-Reflection
Self-location for care providers, before offering care around AI
Before providing care for others, locate your own feelings about AI: check your own buttons, ground one feeling through four lenses (biology, biography, behavior, backstory), and settle yourself before you walk in.
Framework
Should I Use AI for This?
A decision tree for AI in your ministry
Five gates for deciding whether AI belongs in this task, this week — plus a concrete practice for naming what the saved time will enhance, worked examples, and three honest outcomes.
Includes download ↓Guide
Theological Brief: Why Theology?
Seven theological affirmations on AI, with curated resources
Seven theological affirmations for AI-related ministry — incarnation, personhood, community, church, revelation and truth, sin and grace, and ministry and care — each with reflection questions, curated resources, and denominational citations.
Curriculum
Workshop: Becoming a Wise Pastoral Companion in the Age of AI
A three-part workshop for ministers
A facilitated workshop equipping ministers to know themselves, develop healthy practices and boundaries (including a personal AI covenant), and accompany others through AI-related pastoral situations.
Includes download ↓Guide
AI Fluency Flow
A guided path from technical vocabulary to pastoral response
A step-by-step reference for building calm, practical fluency in AI concepts, relational technologies, scams, pastoral frameworks, grief, theological anchors, and caregiver formation.
Includes download ↓Curriculum
Being With AI
A course built on presence, not information
An introduction to the Being With course and its special series on artificial intelligence: Welcome, Wonderings, Story, Reflections — an experience of being known rather than being fixed.
Curriculum
Being With AI: Six Sessions
A facilitated journey through society, humanity, God, and the Church
The complete six-session Being With AI curriculum: AI and society, three competing stories, the Christian virtues at stake, AI and humanity, AI and God, and the challenge to the Church.
Includes download ↓Guide
Further Resources on AI, Faith & Human Flourishing
Curated organizations, statements, and research starting points
A concise guide to trusted ecumenical, denominational, academic, policy, and humane-technology organizations working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, faith, ethics, and human dignity.
Guide
Four Guardrails for Church AI Use
Embodiment, formation, privacy, and transparency
Four principles for faithful church use of AI: never substitute virtual tools for embodied care, preserve the formative work of sermon preparation, protect congregational data, and disclose how AI is used.
Practice cases
All case studies →Practice case 11
Whose Sermon Is It?
A pastor’s use of AI grows from brainstorming into full sermon drafting in her own voice, raising questions about formation, factual accuracy, disclosure, and trust.
Practice case 12
The Case I Put Into the Chatbot
A solo pastor uses a chatbot as a reflection partner, but locally identifiable pastoral details and confident clinical language expose the limits of AI consultation.
Practice case 13
The Perfect Pastoral Email
An AI-drafted condolence communicates exactly the right words, then creates a relational rupture when the recipient learns how little personal attention preceded it.
Practice case 14
A Prayer That Never Passed Through Me
A chaplain finds that generated prayers can widen language and sustain ministry, but may also bypass the interior work that forms a spiritual leader.
Practice case 15
The Candidate the System Ranked Last
A church hiring committee discovers that an apparently objective AI ranking has reproduced hidden preferences and already shaped whose application receives attention.