Selected by The Christian Century as part of its Top 25 Articles of 2025, ranking at positions 13 and 14, these essays reflect the Church’s call to faithful discernment in complex times. One challenges the growing use of artificial intelligence, reminding readers that prayer and preaching are not tasks to be outsourced to technology. The other calls the Church to a clear Gospel witness for peace, insisting that a Christianity aligned with war is not Christianity at all, but a form of idolatry.
Read and enjoy the selected articles here:
The church cannot bless war
A Christianity that affirms the state’s wars is not Christianity. It is idolatry.
by C. Andrew Doyle and Stanley Hauerwas
The priesthood of all chatbots?
I’m sure there are good uses for AI in our churches. Prayer and preaching aren’t among them.
by Zac Koons
