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The internet has quietly stopped being human. Most content is now synthetic, AI companies are hiring philosophers to manage the fallout, and vulnerable people are turning to chatbots for guidance that belongs in a pastor's office.

Drew asks: if Westminster answered 'what is a human for' in 1647, why are we letting Silicon Valley answer it now?

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What happens when you hand your voice to a machine and ask it to speak for you?

A generation is being tempted to go silent, to outsource expression, identity, and even prayer. This week, Drew explores the theology of voice, the rough draft as sacred ground, and the God who still insists on the stuttering prophet.

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What happens to the soul when every hard question comes with an instant answer? AI delivers information on demand. But formation has never moved that fast. This week, we explore the spiritual cost of frictionless faith, why God will not be googled, and what the church can offer that no algorithm can.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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