How a 2023 sermon series, a Summit, and Sunday Forums shaped Epiphany’s theology of AI—and why wisdom remains a human vocation.
Epiphany’s Theology of Artificial Intelligence
The Alignment Problem
To watch, please click here. By the time I had passed through college, then graduate school for an MBA and seminary for a master of divinity, I was pretty good at school. A’s were part of my identity. Not because I was the smartest kid in the class, but because I had mastered studying for
Doyt on AI on the Love Conquers Fear Podcast
Doyt recently sat down for an hour-long conversation on the Love Conquers Fear podcast. Asked why he does what he does, he answered the way he answers most things: not with a tidy testimony, but with a story about driving to baptize a newborn in an incubator, a theory about who actually wrote the Gospel
On Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
An Epiphany Pastoral Letter in Response to Pope Leo XIV Encyclical MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS Something happened yesterday that I have been waiting for, in one form or another, for a long time. Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence – and in doing
Why AI Cannot Be Virtuous: The Moral Argument for Human Uniqueness
The eleventh session of Doyt’s 12-part Bible study on AI and human identity began examining four categories that differentiate humans from AI: morality, relationship, ontological nature, and epistemology. The first category revealed why AI can mimic virtuous behavior but can never practice virtue, because virtue requires will, and AI lacks will. Our Created Vocation: Priesthood
Wisdom Is Vocational, Not Computational: Why AI Can Never Inhabit Life
The tenth session of Doyt’s 12-part Bible study on AI and human identity brought together threads from previous weeks to make a definitive claim: wisdom is vocational, not computational. After exploring how the Bible contains both information (genealogies, laws, histories) and wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, prophets, Jesus’s teachings, Paul’s letters), this session revealed why AI—no matter
Information vs. Wisdom: What the Bible Teaches That AI Cannot
The ninth session of Doyt’s 12-part Bible study on AI and human identity tackled a crucial distinction: the difference between information and wisdom. In an age where AI excels at processing vast quantities of data, this session revealed why biblical wisdom operates in an entirely different category—one that requires embodiment, relationship, and formative practice that
The Cycle of Mercy: Why Justice Emerges from Repentance, Not Punishment
The eighth session of Doyt’s 12-part Bible study on AI and human identity continued exploring sin with a radical implication: mercy, not judgment, is God’s nature—and pursuing mercy, not justice, creates just societies. This challenged comfortable assumptions about divine justice and what it means to live the “cycle” of sin and repentance. Three crucial insights
The Formative Power of Sin: Why We Need It for Love
The seventh session of Doyt’s 12-part Bible study on AI and human identity tackled one of Christianity’s most misunderstood concepts: sin. Rather than viewing sin as primarily shame, judgment, or moral failure, this session revealed sin as an inevitable consequence of love and freedom—and surprisingly, as the foundation of human morality and justice. Three profound
