Essays
The Transhumanist Question
Is our being merely human something that ought to be overcome?
Unlearning the Gospel of Efficiency
Technology pulls us toward optimization, but God’s work in our lives takes a slower route.
Review
Racial Reconciliation Is on the Move
The gospel shouldn’t just change our hearts. At times, it should also change our addresses.
Still Life with the Fruit of the Spirit
To be human is to be a maker of beauty and a steward of justice.
Analysis
Rise of the Thinking Machines
The development of artificial intelligence explained by experts in the field.
God Remembers in Our Dementia
Alzheimer’s has robbed my mother of her memories. But in Christ, both she and I are not forgotten.
Review
When Pseudoscience Swallowed Scripture
In the heyday of eugenics, too many Christians lost their moral and theological bearings.
News
What Algorithms Have Brought Together
Christian singles aren’t going to church to find life partners. They’re swiping on the apps.
Review
We Want What the World Can’t Give
How Ecclesiastes diagnoses our doomed quests for happiness.
When We Make Intelligence in Our Image
From Genesis to generative models, human creativity can echo the Creator’s design.
Public Theology Project
An Image of God for an Era of AI
Our understanding of the imago Dei must be shaped by awe, mystery, and the person of Jesus Christ.
News
Meet the Christian Engineers Helping to Shape AI
These young tech workers are struggling to live out their faith as they navigate a high-stakes industry.
In Those Days, There Was No King Over AI
How should Christians engage with artificial intelligence when people are doing what is right in their own eyes?
What Is (Artificial) Intelligence?
Four experts weigh in on knowledge in the age of AI.
Don’t Conflate Intelligence with Value
Our obsession with AI’s capabilities misunderstands what intelligence actually is.
Why We’re Desperate to Measure Intelligence
Humans’ ability to reason is not the same as AI gathering information.
AI Offers Information. God Offers Wisdom.
The data-information-knowledge-wisdom model puts artificial intelligence in its proper place.
AI Is Making Humans Dumber
Mimicry is not the same as having intelligence, or as comprehending love and art.
Prologues
Seek the Kingdom Wherever It Is Found
A note from mission advancement in our July/August issue.
Qualms & Proverbs
Should Christians Avoid Writing with AI?
CT advice columnists also weigh in on a break from ministry and what to do about friends who are cohabitating.
Nicholas Carr on AI Doctors and Internet Edgelords
The author and tech journalist joined the Russell Moore Show to discuss what we stand to lose when we embrace artificial intelligence.
Testimony
Explosive Secrets Damaged Me. Surrendering to Jesus Saved Me.
A balcony view, a warehouse church, and the sweetness of the Word led me to the safe home of God’s love.
We’re Committed to Humans
A note from CT’s editorial director and art director for print in our July/August issue.
Backstories
Readers Say Yes to Church Kitchens
And other responses to our March/April issue.