Program Director for The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. Executive Producer for As in Heaven podcast. Author of The Great Dechurching.
Joined May 2009
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4 Mar 2025
Jim Davis and I are giving away something we are proud of - a toolkit to help local church leaders.
This data-driven resource will help your leadership team close the back door, open the front door, & send your members out better equipped.
Brief thread:
pages.thegospelcoalition.org…
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This is painful but important read:
thegospelcoalition.org/artic…
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Jun 12
I referenced this AI prompt addition at the @TGC Women’s Conference.
Adding this one sentence to your prompt improved theology and ethics scores in the forthcoming 2026 AI Christian Benchmark from unacceptably bad to quite good.
Here’s why it works…
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Jun 12
AI is a discipleship issue.
We need to both have a basic understanding of how it works and how to use the tool.
It’s like power tools in the garage, you can do powerful things but they can be dangerous as well.
The goal is redemptive use only and that requires wisdom.
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Jun 12
For more information on some AI initiatives TGC will publish in the near future you can read here:
pages.thegospelcoalition.org…
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John Lennox is an absolute gem:
Jun 8
Man, this is beautiful. A life adorning the gospel.
Listen to what @StevenBartlett—host of one of the world’s most popular podcasts—says to Christian apologist John Lennox.
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There are three distinctions that I've found consistently helpful in AI conversations with others:
Toil vs. Labor
Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Tool vs. Prosthesis
I explain these distinctions here:
donothallucinate.com/p/three…
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May 29
From my experience the five most powerful words a man can say to another man are:
“I’m proud of you.”
This has proven true in discipleship, parenting, and pastoring.
It’s hard to quantify why, but I think it’s something we need to be telling each other more frequently.
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May 27
I make a case for why the principled pluralist framework for handling religious questions by LLMs is a significant upgrade to the true/false and pluralist paradigms here in this interview.
We can immediately eliminate religious bias and have religious freedom with this tweak:
The Pope's encyclical on humanity in the age of AI has brought new attention to the relationship between frontier technology and religious belief.
@msgwrites has thought deeply about what this means for people of all faiths and for the leading AI labs themselves. His suggestion is that the default approach for AI models on questions of religion should be one of principled pluralism.
“You’ve asked a question about the Christian tradition. We’re going to answer this question from the perspective of adherents of the historic Christian tradition.”
Then the model gives a full answer from that tradition.
“If you were looking for a skeptical approach, a different religious tradition’s approach, or a sub-denomination’s approach, we can take the conversation in that direction.”
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May 27
I agree with Andy here.
Yuval Levin's article is a must read:
May 27
By far the best thing I've read on the encyclical. thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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May 26
I created DO NOT HALLUCINATE today...
One more Substack the world probably doesn't need...
It's free and designed to rapidly bring ministry leaders up to speed on that weeks' biggest developments at the intersection of AI and religion:
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May 21
AI models are quickly becoming humanity’s "high priests."
We are shifting from a species that acquires knowledge through primary sources to one that relies on secondary AI sources.
This leaves a significant problem.
Here is my manifesto on how to fix it. 🧵
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May 21
This approach protects models from bias claims, satisfies religious freedom advocates on the right, and pleases pluralism advocates on the left.
Every religion gets to compete fairly in the marketplace of ideas.
These issues are fixable, fast. Let's talk.
My DMs are open.
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