HeyJaredThe Human Part
Where an Episcopal priest thinks out loud about keeping ministry human in the age of AI.
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Church Should Be an Analog Haven (opens the original)
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I spend a good part of my ministry advising church leaders how to use AI. So it may surprise you to hear what I actually think church should feel like once you walk in the door: handmade, slow, and almost defiantly analog.This vision is deeply shaped by the parish where I serve. At St. Gregory of Nyssa, we have no organ and no words projected on a wall. The music begins with a moment I always find humorous, when I take the time to really experience it: our cantor strikes a tuning fork against hi
The Wilderness We Didn't Choose (Sermon) (opens the original)
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If your experience of the past week and a half has been anything like mine, then your newsfeeds and social gatherings have been inundated with questions and conversations about AI takeovers and the end of all human life. As I was in New York this past week, there were several late nights and early mornings when, after the work of the day was done, I doomscrolled far more than usual, gripped by the media coverage of this terrifying topic. And I saw several Gregorians posting about it repeatedly,
Now is the Time to Up Your Cybersecurity Game (opens the original)
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AI safety is having a moment. Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic triggered a media response that is of a much greater scale than anything we’ve seen before on the topic, despite the fact that AI safety people have been warning of this risk for decades. I’m grateful for this attention on a matter that could not be of higher importance for us all.We should all be speaking out about AI safety and the need to pace the frontier of AI and slow down the race so that,
Why I Teach Clergy to Use the Thing I Want Slowed Down (opens the original)
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When the freeways came for the West Village, the people who stopped them were not the ones who had refused to own a car. They were people who knew, in detail, what a road does to a neighborhood. Refusal has never been the same thing as resistance, and the church keeps confusing the two.The Lower Manhattan Expressway would have run ten lanes through SoHo and Little Italy, and Robert Moses had every institutional advantage on his side. The coalition that beat him, Jane Jacobs most famously, did it
AI & Sermon Writing: I Sorted Every Objection I Could Find (opens the original)
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Sermons are the third rail of the AI & ministry debate. For some reason, when I notice a topic that people are shying away from discussing openly, I do the opposite and dive in headfirst. So here goes. (Note: today’s is a long one! Read this when you have some time to sit with it.)There’s a trend I’ve noticed in my conversations with church leaders: those who use AI skillfully and well are much less likely to be concerned with AI-assisted sermons than those who do not. But I think both camps are
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