Missional AI Podcast
Join hosts Joshua Seale and James Poulter weekly as they explore the intersection of mission work and AI.
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Should You Even Raise Capital? Faith, Funding & Building in the AI Age | Henry Kaestner, James Cham & Jess Chin (opens the original)
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Money is one of the most uncomfortable conversations in the faith and mission world, so we went straight at it. Recorded live at Missional AI SV26, this panel with Henry Kaestner, James Cham, and Jess Chin tackles financing, investment, and building things that last at the intersection of mission and marketplace. Henry argues that the first question isn't how to raise capital but whether you should raise it at all. James makes the case that the best source of financing is a customer, not an inve
Gaylen Washington: YouVersion Platform, AI & Leading Through Disruption (opens the original)
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Gaylen Washington of YouVersion joins the Missional AI Podcast to talk about the YouVersion Platform, the next chapter in the YouVersion story. The platform opens up the Bible app's content, licensing, and infrastructure so developers anywhere in the world can build their own faith experiences: Bible readers, Scripture-infused apps, and even Bible experiences inside Roblox.But this conversation goes well beyond the tech. Gaylen shares how AI is reshaping the way he leads a team of over a hundred
Andrew McLuhan: AI, Consciousness & Why AI Is Only an Echo (opens the original)
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AI isn't just changing what you do — it's changing what you believe you're capable of. 🎙️ James Poulter talks with Andrew McLuhan — poet, teacher, and grandson of media theorist Marshall McLuhan — recorded live at the Missional AI Summit. They dig into whether AI can have consciousness, why that's not the same as having a soul, and why reason and resonance are two totally different things. Plus: the real myth of Narcissus and Echo — and what it says about every AI chat window you've ever opened.
CV's Nick Parker: "Just Because We Can, Should We?" — AI, Evangelism & Reaching 500 Languages (opens the original)
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Nick Parker from Christian Vision (CV) joins the Missional AI Podcast to unpack how a 35+ year evangelism ministry — not a tech company — is using AI to scale content creation and translation toward an ambitious goal: reaching 500 languages spoken by unreached people groups. Nick and host JP talk through CV's journey from shortwave radio in 1988 to today's digital and AI tools, the hard ethical questions around AI chatbots and discipleship, and the guiding question behind it all: "just because w
God in a Box? AI, the Church, and the Next Five Years | Live from Wildfires Festival (opens the original)
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Recorded live in a packed tent at Wildfires Festival 2026, this Missional AI lab brings together Joshua Seale (Executive Director, Global Missional AI) and James Poulter ("JP," author of the forthcoming AI at Work) for an unscripted, audience-driven conversation on what it means to follow Jesus in the age of artificial intelligence.From Bible translation timelines collapsing by decades, to a leaked "escape" from an AI sandbox, to Sam Altman's own language about "building God in a box" — Joshua a
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