Christian Apologetics

08/28/2026

"AI is a test, a time of trial, to which our civilization has been called at this moment, and which many of us individually may be called to enter into as we enter upon our daily vocations. But we should do so with fear and trembling, in prayer, and above all in dependence upon one another in the body of Christ for wisdom. If we are to avoid measuring ourselves against the machine, if we are to avoid being conformed to this distorted imago hominis reflection that the world presses upon us, we must be transformed by renewing our minds through constant attention to and fellowship with the imagines Dei that meet us around the Table every week."

For several years now, the conversation around artificial intelligence in much highbrow cultural commentary, including that of the Church, has played out in a now depressingly familiar cycle. Silicon Valley announces some new model or product release—DALL-E 2 or GPT-4 or Claude Mythos—with some ...

08/28/2026

08/13/2026

Is Redemptive AI Possible?

A longtime friend, who has had great success incorporating artificial intelligence into an already successful business, likened the recent Colson Center Great Lakes Symposium on artificial intelligence to an old man yelling, “Get off my lawn.”

He’s not wrong, at least when it comes to a lot of ways AI gets talked about.

Our speakers (me included!) spent the majority of the time warning against the dangers inherent to this incredible technology. And there are dangers, specifically how easily the technology can be weaponized for deception, exploitation, and control, as well as the potential for replacing humans in relationships, work, and creativity.

Their warnings should be heard and heeded. Probably the most important advice of the evening was that we should each of us closely evaluate how we are using AI, especially what habits we are forming as we do.

At the same time, to only say what’s wrong with AI is to only tell part of the story, both of the world and of the complicated relationship that humans have always had with technology.

The Bible offers a story of the world that can be summarized in four chapters: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration. All four are required to properly understand any aspect of human activity, including business art, medicine, or technology.

Technology is possible because of how God made humans and the world. Our sin has corrupted creation and our technologies, which carry the potential for good and evil, or both. Our fallenness can also blind us to the ways our technologies shape us, especially how we think about God and other people. Christ’s work is redemptive, not only to individual souls but for all of creation. And so, we look forward to His return, when creation is restored. Our task in the meantime is to join the work of restoration wherever and however we can.

If we talk only about the fallen uses of AI, we miss an opportunity to celebrate where God is using it for His glory. Praxis, a network of Christian entrepreneurs that trains leaders and inspires innovation, describes three ways that any venture or technology can be used. The exploitative way is a “take-what-it-can-get,” zero-sum, “I win, you lose” posture. In contrast, the ethical way does things right, follows the rules, and aims for a fair deal. But there’s a third way, according to Praxis Partner Andy Crouch. The redemptive way is fundamentally other-centered and echoes the pattern of Jesus laying down His life to save the world. Like Him, our work should be driven by an “I sacrifice, we win” mindset.

Because our technologically driven culture is bent toward efficiency and productivity, we rarely hear stories of this third way. So, here are three that could be described as redemptive uses of AI.

The Rare Genomics Institute, founded and led by Dr. Jimmy Lin, uses genomic technology powered by AI-assisted analysis to help patients with rare, undiagnosed diseases finally get answers, often after years of searching. With AI, Rare Genomics helps and heals those whom the market has no incentive to care about.

Every Tribe Every Nation, an alliance of Bible translators, recently reported that because of AI assistance, Bible translation timelines are being reduced by as much as 25 years. New translation efforts are being launched at a pace of every seventeen hours. Today, only a few hundred of the world’s heart languages remain untouched by any translation effort, and that number is shrinking fast.

After completing the Colson Fellows Program, Jake Carlson launched The Apologist Project, a conversational AI solution built on biblical worldview and trained on the world’s best Christian apologetics content. It is empowering ministries in the U.S. and across the world to extend their digital reach to skeptics through evangelism and discipleship.

In addition to these examples are many others, including medical institutions and businesses that benefit from the data crunching AI provides.

Of course, the dangers also remain, not least of which include the corrupted visions of humanity driving those who champion these technologies. Right now, visions of AI run from those who want to help humans, to those who want to heal humans, to those who want to enhance humans, to those who want to replace humans.

To put it mildly, we need discernment if we are to tell the difference between these radically different visions, choosing those uses within the first two visions while rejecting uses within the latter two. Christians who are grounded in the essential truths of a Christian worldview will have much to offer in the days ahead. In practice, that will mean not confusing AI with image bearers and not reducing image bearers to only their “intelligence.”

It has always been true that technologies can be used to deceive and to exploit or to heal, help, and proclaim truth. The most important difference is not the technology itself, but who is using it and why. Christians aren’t just called to diagnose brokenness. We are called to find where God is at work and to join Him there.

04/30/2026

This location has long been considered a viable candidate for the final resting place of Noah's Ark. Thankfully, researchers are being allowed to study the area and test it to see if it is the remains of an ancient ship. Very exciting to see! If proven true, this will be a great encouragement to Christians and a help tool for apologetics in the disputes over modern scientific claims. Check it out:

04/29/2026

For those interested in the early Creeds and Nicaea, check out this great episode on the Council:

Episode 3: The Council of NicaeaDid a fourth-century church council invent Christianity as we know it? It's one of the most popular claims made by skeptics t...

04/29/2026

“There Is No Mama”

A recent video exposed the injustice at the heart of same-sex marriage and commercial surrogacy. In it, a man bouncing a baby on his lap asks, “Who do you want? Dada or Pop?” The baby answered, “Mama!” To which, both the man and his unseen partner behind the camera laughed and said, “There is no Mama.” They continue to badger the child, who then begins to cry.

The most obvious evil portrayed in the video is the relentless teasing of a baby. The deeper evil, however, is not that the men were mean. In fact, being mean was only the insult added to the injury of forcing their farcical arrangement on a baby and calling it a family.

Because, and everyone knows this including these two men suppressing the truth by their wickedness, there is a mama. She is not included in the video, nor is she in the life of the baby she carried and who needs her, but she exists. She’s been cut out of her child’s life, presumably by her own choice. The baby, however, did not make a choice. And now two men who have appropriated the title of “parents” are badgering the baby into affirming their lifestyle choice.

Perhaps, the infant is only doing what infants often do, babbling out those syllables that are often among the first learned by young ones across times and places and culture. But of course, these syllables always refer to the same person. They are, in the end, a primal cry of children for a particular someone who should always be there for them.

Anyone who has spent time around babies understands what is playing out in this scene. For little ones, mama is the world. In fact, according to childhood policy expert Dr. Dan Wuori, kids often say “Dada” before “Mama” not because the mom doesn’t matter as much but because she matters so much more. In their tiny, growing minds, they recognize “Dad” as a distinct person before they realize that “Mom” isn’t part of themselves. This innate and beautiful bond is intentionally broken when we pretend that a man can replace a mom, or whenever a child is acquired through surrogacy.

Just as tragic is the embrace of same-sex “marriage” or such reproductive technologies by individuals, governments, medical authorities, and Christians, while failing to even take a cursory glance to consider what is best for the child. Any ethical concerns around in vitro fertilization and surrogacy have been deferred in order to protect the feelings and desires of adults. In fact, both in policy and in public discourse, we’ve lost the ability to even discern the difference between couples who suffer with infertility and same-sex couples who have chosen inherently sterile relationships but then demand children. As a result, what children need is tossed aside in the name of adult desires. Children become commodities in the marketplace of consumer-driven reproductive technologies.

As Katy Faust, founder of the children’s rights group Them Before Us and the Greater Than campaign, said to the Colson Center:

We've been sounding the alarm about surrogacy for years. The mother loss, the commodification, the fact that children often go home with unrelated adults, increasing risk of abuse and neglect. But videos like this do something that arguments and studies never can. They spark righteous rage that leads people to come out of the closet as defenders of the natural family. It is more and more clear that gay marriage didn’t just have to do with what takes place "in the privacy of the bedroom." It impacts children. And when we see those children cry on camera, it motivates us to action.

It should, at least. The word “natural” is accurate. Having chosen unnatural relationships, to quote Paul, these two dads now demand that even a baby must affirm what is unnatural. Even if they had not made that demand in such a cruel way in a video shared for social media clicks, great harm has been done to this child. And a culture that affirms their choice is complicit in that harm.

Babies need their mamas. There are few things more obvious than that. Denying that reality is a tragedy. Harming children should be a crime.

12/31/2025

Some really good scholarship and discoveries have been made over the past decades regarding the dominate language in first century Judea. As Christians, it appears to be accurate for us to say that Jesus' public speech was almost fully spoken in Greek, which means that the Gospels give us the untranslated words of Christ himself with no need to worry about a filter from Aramaic to Greek with the writers. Check out more here:

Have you ever wondered what language Jesus spoke? Today many of us read the Bible in a modern translation and assume that Jesus was probably speaking Hebrew or maybe Aramaic. However, the New Testament books were originally written in Greek, so how does that fit in? Here’s what we do know, the fir

11/12/2025

For the time in which we find ourselves as Christians, doing apologetics requires a wide range of skills. This was demonstrated exceedingly well on the recent episode of the Sam Harris Podcast, when Pastor Doug Wilson presented his views on the Bible, Christian Nationalism and the future of the world. Check it out:

Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Wilson about his book Frequently Shouted Questions about Christian Nationalism. They discuss Wilson’s debates with Christopher...

04/21/2025

He is risen!

By His resurrection, Jesus delivers us from Sheol. Insofar as Sheol is an experience of this life, He delivers us from all the deaths that we might suffer, from all the threats, distresses, assaults, fears, illnesses that frustrate life.

Like the Psalmist, we face sickness, enemies, isolation, rejection, persecution, loss. Like the Psalmist, we may be exiled, enslaved, oppressed, under the wrath of God, cut off. There may be times when we seem condemned to a frustrated, fruitless existence.

Through the resurrection of Jesus, we know that God will not abandon our soul to Sheol. He will not leave us in exile; He will make the infertile fruitful; He will open the womb of the barren.

What if we don’t survive these threats? We all know Christians who experience what appears to be permanent fruitlessness and frustration. What if the barren do not become fertile?

We all know Christians who die early, who die violently, and they are not brought back from the dead as Jesus was. What if sickness does cut us down in our youth, before we have ripened, before we have completed our life’s projects? What about Christians who suffer failure in a career, in marriage, with children?

Has the resurrection failed for them? Has God abandoned them in Sheol?

No. Easter contains a promise also for them. Even if we are cut down “before our time,” we are seed dying in the ground to bear much fruit. Even if your life seems fruitless and absurd, even if you are frustrated and defeated, your dying is fruitful in Christ.

No Christian is ever abandoned to Sheol. No Christian ever suffers death-in-life without fruit. No Christian ever suffers premature physical death without being a seed planted. Even the apparent defeats and failures of life are transformed into victory.

Because Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed!

- Peter Leithart