Podcast
AI & Spirituality
Hosted by Drew Dickens · EN
"The AI & Spirituality Podcast" explores the fascinating intersection of artificial intelligence and human spirituality, examining how emerging AI technologies reshape religious practices, personal faith journeys, and ethical considerations. Through thoughtful discussion and real-world examples, this podcast helps listeners explore the latest advancements and navigate the profound implications of AI in their spiritual lives.
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Ordinary Time, On Purpose
3d ago00:03:02Tap to summarizehttps://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 it's accelerating. But the church just entered Ordinary Time, the slow green season of formation. Drew explores what the liturgical calendar knows that Silicon Valley doesn't. https://drewdickens.substack.com/
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"Writing Software, Or Midwifing a Deity?"
1w ago00:03:57Tap to summarizehttps://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 AI's Recursive Self-Improvement and Christian sanctification, and reveals why this point is both where the analogy breaks down and where the gospel gets most interesting. https://drewdickens.substack.com/
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Magnificent Humanity: What Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Means for Your Faith and the Future of AI
2w ago00:02:58Tap to summarizehttps://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 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas — a sweeping theological response to artificial intelligence that asks every Christian to consider: are we building the Tower of Babel, or Jerusalem? https://drewdickens.substack.com/
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The Core Threat - "Averaged Out": When AI Interprets the Church, Vague Theology Disappears
3w ago00:03:29Tap to summarizehttps://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/
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The Quiet Catechism: When AI Becomes the First Voice a Believer Hears
May 1200:02:50Tap to summarizehttps://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/
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May 500:04:31Tap to summarizehttps://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/
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The Policy Gap: Why Churches and Families Need an AI Covenant Now
Apr 2800:02:56Tap to summarizehttps://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/
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The Great AI & Spiritual Divergence
Apr 2100:03:38Tap to summarizehttps://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/
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What Does It Mean To "Learn" : On AI, Pedagogy, and the Wisdom That Still Requires a Teacher
Apr 1400:03:00Tap to summarizehttps://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 how artificial intelligence has shattered the foundations of teaching and formation — and what wisdom, not information, now requires of us. https://drewdickens.substack.com/
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Did God Actually Say...? (or, Why AI Makes Us Feel Creepy)
Apr 600:01:54Tap to summarizehttps://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 the Logos of John's Gospel, Drew traces what happens to the human soul when we can no longer trust the words we hear. https://drewdickens.substack.com/
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