Encountering Peace

08/27/2026

What an honor to be a guest on Unbound with Dr. Tony Evans to discuss the effect of AI on spiritual formation.

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08/18/2026

I got to write two chapters of '40 Bible Passages About AI: Scripture for an Age of Intelligent Machines' (Eds. D. Estes & M. Schwarting), and it just released, free to download.

My contributions:

📖 Genesis 1:26–28: Made in whose image?
📖 Daniel 12:1–4: The sealed scroll and the search engine

Forty scholars. Forty passages. One question the church can't sit out: what does Scripture say to us in the age of AI?

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What does Scripture teach about artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Its impact on our world is palpable and growing, raising urgent ethical and practical questions about human life that cannot be answered by technology alone. People of faith first turn to Scripture to h...

08/04/2026

She asked a machine if her mother still knew God. Then said nothing at church.

Your congregation did not wait for you to decide about AI.

06/30/2026

Just launched our 1/2 year reading plan on YouVersion to match their verse-of-the-day. Check it out.

Based on the YouVersion Verse of the Day, this daily companion plan adds biblical context, responsive scripture reading, imaginative contemplation, soothing music, and a prayer of benediction to help you start every day with stillness before the rush, and the Word before the world.

06/22/2026

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

We are all 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.

06/16/2026

Have you ever asked an AI a question that felt sacred and gotten an answer that felt instant?
That's the trade most of us are making without noticing: certainty on demand, formation on no one's timeline at all. A pastor just surveyed his congregation. Half had already done it.
What did you ask, and what did it cost you?
https://drewdickens.substack.com/

06/09/2026

Silicon Valley doesn't have a liturgical calendar. Because Silicon Valley doesn't believe in formation. It believes in acceleration. The church has been operating on a different calendar for two thousand years. That's not nostalgia. That's theology. https://drewdickens.substack.com/

06/02/2026

What if the engineers building the most powerful AI in history don't think they're writing code?
https://drewdickens.substack.com/.../writing-software-or...

One of Silicon Valley's most respected investors says they're not. He says they're midwifing a deity.

The church has a word for the dream of becoming your own source of transformation.

It's not a compliment.

05/26/2026

What happens when the Pope stands next to the co-founder of the most powerful AI company on earth and together they release the most important theological document of our generation?

This isn't the start of a joke. Today that happened.

And every Christian with a smartphone needs to know what it says about faith and what it means to be human. drewdickens.substack.com

05/19/2026

The church spent decades learning to be found. It hasn't started learning to be understood.

What if the biggest threat to the church isn't that AI gives wrong answers, but that it gives averaged ones? Vague theology disappears when AI interprets you.

https://drewdickens.substack.com/