AI & Technology

The Gospel in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence forces ancient questions back onto the table. When intelligence is no longer uniquely human, Christianity has something specific to say about what a person is, and what a person is for.

The Image of God in the Age of AI

Human value is given, not earned — and what is given cannot be outperformed by a machine.

Five Essential Inquiries

Click any question to unpack the philosophical and theological tensions surfaced by the mirror of artificial intelligence.

Computation manipulates tokens according to syntactic rules at superhuman velocity. Consciousness, by contrast, is the subjective experience of reality—what it is like to perceive, love, suffer, and hope. A system can generate the answer to a poem without ever experiencing grief, beauty, or mortality. Confusing the two is our era's category mistake.

“For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them?” — 1 Corinthians 2:11

Ask the Kingdom AI

Explore these ideas through conversation. A future assistant trained on Bryan Bartels' writings—available to question, challenge, and follow wherever your curiosity leads.