The machine is already in the church.
Sixty-four percent of pastors use AI to write sermons. Seventy-three percent of congregations have no policy governing it. And almost no one is asking the questions that matter.
Not: Should we use AI? That question is already settled by the fact that you, your elders, and the people in your congregation, already are. The real questions are harder. What does faithful ministry look like when artificial intelligence can generate a sermon in thirty seconds? What is the pastor’s calling when machines can process all of Scripture but cannot know the grief in your third row? How do you shepherd a flock that is already being discipled by algorithms, whether you know it or not?
This publication exists for the working shepherd who needs to think clearly about these things. Not the technologist who has never preached a funeral. Not the theologian writing for journals no pastor reads. The shepherd with a flock to feed, decisions to make, and a people to protect.
What you will find here
Theologically serious writing on AI ethics in sermon preparation, pastoral care, congregational discipleship, church policy, and what it means to be called and human in an age of machines. Posts that a pastor would forward to his elder board and feel proud to have shared.
This is not a tech tips column. It is not Christian transhumanism. It is pastoral wisdom meeting genuine AI literacy, written for those whose calling is to shepherd real people through a civilizational moment none of us fully understands.
About Ken Duffy
Ken Duffy is a Reformed theologian, writer, and host of the Redeeming Time podcast. He writes in a war-journal essay style: serious, substantive, and prophetic. He is deeply enthusiastic about AI and believes this is one of the defining challenges of our moment. Not a threat to retreat from, but a force that demands the kind of careful, grounded, scriptural thinking the church does at its best.
This publication is separate from his broader theological writing at kenduffy.net.
