Encountering Peace

Most AI tools for faith are built to entertain. I wanted to build ones that actually do something.

So I made Simple Faith Tools: a free, growing collection of short, AI-powered tools for spiritual formation. Each one works more like a workshop than a chatbot. You bring a real question, you walk away with something you can act on, and sometimes it tells you something you didn't expect to hear.

🔗 simplefaithtools.com

A few you can try right now:

- Practice Gospel Conversations: rehearse a conversation about faith before you have it for real
- Your Spiritual Gifts: a reflective look at how you might be wired to serve
- Is This In The Bible?: a quick trivia game that's harder than it sounds

More are on the way, including a guided end-of-day reflection and a tool for praying Scripture.

No sign-up needed to start. Take a look, try one, and tell me what you'd want built next.

🔗 simplefaithtools.com

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

Drew Dickens | When does AI Become a Spiritual Problem? Thank you for listening to The Unbound Podcast with Dr. Tony Evans....

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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Sample - 40 Bible Passages About AI 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...

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

The Pew Is Ahead of the Pulpit Your congregation did not wait for you to decide about AI.

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

"Verse of the Day" Reading Plan (July-Dec 2026) - Bible App 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.

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.

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?
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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/

What if the engineers building the most powerful AI in history don't think they're writing code?
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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.

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