Wise Engagement with New Technology
Like every technological advancement before it, AI presents both opportunities and threats—to society at large, and to the church. Balancing those requires divine wisdom and discernment.
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Return with Purpose, Live by Faith
God also moved me to become a channel of the gospel to my family, friends, classmates, childhood companions, and even strangers I meet.
Understanding Modern Christians in China: Becoming Who You Are in Christ
When grand narratives no longer serve as the backdrop for self-definition, the question of how an individual can better become themselves arises.
Challenges and Opportunities for the Chinese Mission Movement
Though Chinese house churches experience ongoing and intensifying restrictions, they have begun to develop sending structures to support cross-cultural missionaries. Even churches that have been forced to close are still finding ways to support missionaries that they have sent.
AI: Threats or Opportunities for the Church?
Is AI a threat to be feared, a tool to be leveraged, or both? How do we embrace its potential for the great commission without compromising the integrity of our message or the essence of our humanity?
The Digitalized Image of God and Corrupted Human Nature
How may the perverted order of humanity mirrored in AI be rectified and restored? It is at this point that we are motivated to explore how God’s grace can enable us to perform the image of God with our ectype, that is, AI.
Green Learning and the Christian Response to AI
AI will not replace humans in tasks that demand creativity, generalizability, and abstraction. In most scenarios, AI will serve as an enabling tool to assist humans in decision-making.
AI—Amplifying Virtues and Vices
This new ChinaSource Journal issue focusing on AI comes at an important time, where the practical benefits of AI are being weighed against important ethical and theological issues that come with every new technology.
Shepherding Souls in the Digital Age
The arrival of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant whisper; it is a present reality knocking at the doors of our society, our homes, and our churches.
Remembering Martha
She lifted others, not for recognition, but for the sake of God’s kingdom.
Praying the Lord’s Prayer
In the next month, let’s use the Lord’s prayer as a model to pray, not just for the people of China, but for ourselves.
Prayer Walking as a Rhythm of Life
JD has put together a two-page Prayer Walking Launch Guide to help people get started. If you’re in China, it’s a great resource to help you pray for the city in which God has placed you, either by birth or by a call to sojourn.