Reading Room
Essays, dialogues, and field notes from the work.
An ongoing inquiry into what it means to be human in an age of artificial intelligence.
The Image and the Algorithm
What does it mean to be made in the image of God in an age of generative machines? A theological reading of Large Language Models.
Theology of Artificial Intelligence
An introduction to the theological questions raised by AI — creation, image, agency, and the limits of the made thing.
God and the Mystery of AI
“If you can understand it, it's not God.” On Augustine, the limits of mastery, and the one question AI cannot answer.
The Why
If AI is Abundant Intelligence, what would we actually want to know? A reflection on AI, Divine Intelligence, and the questions that have always mattered most.
When We Ask: AI and the Questions We Can't Answer
What does it mean when we can ask anything of a machine, but hesitate to ask the same of ourselves? A reflection on questions that demand answers — and questions that demand us.
The Selfie and the Soul
An essay on identity, the algorithmic gaze, and the Imago Dei in an age where the self is endlessly photographed, filtered, and optimized.
Odyssey, AI, and Our Journeys
On telos, homecoming, and the difference between a life that journeys toward an end and a machine that only calculates the next answer.
Clay to Code: The Evolution of Human Identity
An essay on the Imago Dei, the digital potter, and what it means to be shaped by algorithms rather than by love.
The Lighthouse
On automation, the loss of work, and what remains of the human when the machines have taken the wheel.
Can AI sin? And why it matters.
On moral agency, missing the mark, and why setting the target remains a uniquely human task.
Who Gets to Decide?
On moral decay, institutional failure, and why the people shaping AI's future may be the least equipped to govern it well.