AI can assist Scripture—but cannot discern truth or Spirit. When innovation outruns wisdom, formation becomes collateral damage. Simulated souls force a haunting question: what is real spirituality?
AI is becoming a spiritual guide—are we noticing? Chatbots offer connection—but may erode real relationships. As AI companions rise, human love quietly reshapes itself.
Pastors face a choice: leverage AI or be shaped by it. Faster ministry tools risk slower, deeper pastoral presence. The future church hinges on who forms whom—pastors or machines.
Tremper Longman III — one of the most prolific and trusted Old Testament scholars of his generation — joins John for a conversation about the parts of Scripture that trouble us most, and why sitting with that trouble might be more formative than explaining it away.
Tyler Staton joins John for the first conversation in Formation's history. This is a conversation about the ancient and the empirical, and how sometimes we may look for formation in all the wrong places.
The arts are instruments of formation that shape our attention and reorder our desires.
When artistic practices become practices that form the soul.
How singing shapes the body, binds communities, and opens the soul
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