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Author: Bobby Macintosh
Bobby Macintosh writes about where faith and technology meet. What began as curiosity about AI and well-crafted prompts became something deeper: a way of asking how these new tools can serve the careful, prayerful study of Scripture without replacing it. At aiprompttheory.com, Bobby explores AI through the lens of Christian theology, from practical guides for pastors and Bible students to harder questions about personhood, the image of God, and what wisdom looks like in an age of machines. He writes warmly and honestly, with sources you can check, and he's quick to say where the tools fall short. One of his favourite projects is [The Hyperlinked Book](https://aiprompttheory.com/bible), which draws every cross-reference in the Bible at once and shows how writers spread across fifteen centuries still speak to one another. Bobby's articles are written with the help of AI and shaped by human study, faith and judgement.
Can a Machine Make an Icon? Carlo Acutis, Pope Leo XIV and What Sacred Art Is For
An AI-made icon of St Carlo Acutis, Pope Leo XIV on art and machines, and how Catholic, Orthodox…
AI “Pastor Twins” and the Cure of Souls: The Shepherd Who Must Give an Account
Can an AI pastor twin care for souls? A fair look at the Vallejo twin, Hebrews 13:17 and…
Footnotes Aren’t Faithfulness: Testing “Cited” AI Bible Tools
Do cited AI Bible tools get it right? We ran five trap prompts in duck.ai and Gemini, scored…
Writing a Church AI Policy That Sounds Like Your Church: A Starter Kit
A church AI policy starter kit: eight clauses for pastoral data, children, deepfakes, Bible copyright and disclosure, a…
Magnifica Humanitas: A Reader’s Guide to Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical on AI
A reader's guide to Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on AI: each chapter, key paragraphs, ecumenical…
Searching Scripture by Meaning: How Semantic Search Helps You Trace Themes Across the Bible
What semantic search is, how it differs from a concordance, and a simple method for tracing biblical themes…
How AI Can Connect to Theological Libraries: The Model Context Protocol Explained
What the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is, why connecting AI to trusted theological libraries matters, realistic uses, and…
Using AI in Christian Apologetics: Stress-Testing Arguments with Gentleness and Respect
How to use AI to prepare better apologetics answers: steelman objections, map your logic, check the evidence, and…
Teaching AI to Respect Your Tradition: Confessions, Catechisms and Denominational Depth
How to get AI tools to honour your church's confession and catechism: why the "average answer" fails, fine-tuning…
AI and the Manuscripts: How New Tools Are Helping Scholars Read, Date and Compare Biblical Texts
Real examples of AI and imaging in biblical manuscript study (the En-Gedi scroll, the Great Isaiah Scroll's scribes,…