On Thursday 23rd April 2026, The Joint Public Issues Team and the Student Christian Movement partnered to facilitate a webinar exploring the ethical and justice debates around generative AI. How does AI relate to justice? How do we tackle its political and ethical questions such as human rights, job security, and warfare? What is our responsibility as Christians who care about people and planet, living in a digital world? This page is a product of this webinar and a range of resources shared by its contributors and organisers, encouraging Christians to do the work and think critically about AI, faith and justice.
This page was last updated 6 May 2026.
Watch & listen
Andy Crouch | Redemptive Artificial Intelligence, Today’s Conversation podcast, National Association of Evangelicals (October 2024)
Andy Crouch discusses AI’s potential to be a profound and fruitful extension of human image-bearing, exploring how real image-bearing is embedded in embodied, interdependent creatures.
Should Christians Use AI? A Dialogical Debate, Theology in the Raw with Preston Sprinkle (May 2025)
Doug Smith offers an insider’s perspective on the power of technology alongside Jay Owen, creating a balanced debate that avoids both uncritical hype and blanket condemnation.
Artificial Intelligence and the Purposes of God, Bishop’s Annual Lecture, Sheffield Cathedral (March 2026)
Revd Dr Simon Cross, the Church of England’s AI Policy Lead, explores how AI relates to God’s purposes, bringing a distinctive perspective as a former airline pilot who understands automation’s capacity to both augment and undermine human agency.
Navigating AI as a Leader, The Profile podcast, Premier (2025)
Andy Peck talks to Simon Cross about practical and hopeful AI engagement for church leaders, rooted in his Grove booklet Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for the Perplexed.
AI and Faith Podcast (ongoing)
A wide-ranging podcast series featuring expert technologists and faith leaders bringing ancient wisdom to the ethical AI conversation.
Techno–Nihilism and the Human Stakes of AI – Theos Think Tank (10 March 2026)
What if the so–called “AI doomers” are right? Watch Nathan Mladin’s research seminar for The Faraday Instit
What impact does AI have on faith? – Theos Think Tank (19 September 2024)
Dr Nathan Mladin appears alongside Dr Austin Tiffany, Zeshan Zafar and Nicole Pearson discussing the moral questions raised by artificial intelligence.
‘The Hidden Realities of Artificial Intelligence’ (Podcast), The Cambridge Student (27 October 2024)
Conversation with Annissa La Touche, Cambridge Geography graduate, and Alva Markelius, PhD student and founder of the Cambridge University AI Ethics Society. They discuss the rapidly expanding technology’s repercussions on society for young people, human rights, systemic injustices and the environment.
ChatGPT – In AI We Trust? Nomad podcast (September 2023)
Hosts of Nomad podcast interview non-human guest ChatGPT on its ethical complexities and moral implications for churches and Christians.
Global Justice Now: Resisting Big Tech empires (25 April 2026)
Watch the opening and closing plenaries of this event held at London South Bank University.
Connected: Episode 3 — Working Differently – The Methodist Church (15 May 2026)
Ben Hollebon talks through how the Methodist Digital Transformation programme is being run. He names two pastoral concerns about AI authenticity that District Chairs raised independently this week, and sets out the wider Church conversation on AI ethics across the AI Working Group, and Conference.
Constructive Initiatives
Wycliffe Global Alliance: AI and Bible Translation
AI-assisted tools are now used in nearly 500 translation projects worldwide, reducing the translation process by up to 25 years in some languages. A concrete example of AI serving justice and access.
AI and Christian Mission in Africa, Frontier Ventures
Examines how mission agencies in Africa are engaging AI constructively to serve the Global South.
A Redemptive Thesis for Artificial Intelligence, Andy Crouch, Praxis Labs
Explores “redemptive directions” for building ventures that extend AI in ways that inform but do not replace human agency, and develop rather than diminish cognitive capacity.
Get involved in: Campaigns
Stop Killer Robots campaign
An ongoing campaign launched in 2013 which calls for new international law on autonomy in weapons systems to ensure human control in the use of force.
Pull the Plug campaign
A new activist movement to give ordinary people a say on how AI is implemented.
Get Palantir out of UK public services | Global Justice Now
Sign this petition from Global Justice Now to get Palantir out of all UK public contracts, including the NHS.
Future of Arms campaign on autonomous weapons
JPIT’s Future of Arms project aims to equip Christians and our churches to engage in discussion and advocacy with decision-makers about these vital issues, as we seek to fulfill the Christian vocation to be peacemakers.
Christian organisations & events
The AI Christian Partnership
An alliance of Christian organisations, respected theologians and innovative technologists to help Christians navigate AI.
CV Digital Day
A one-day event designed to spark a conversation at the intersection of mission and tech. Details TBA for 2026.
Our Common Future: Advocating for Digital Rights and AI Accountability | World Council of Churches
An ecumenical symposium organised by the WCC which took place in Berlin in April 2026. It aimed to develop a concrete advocacy and capacity-building framework for coordinated and collaborative action towards digital justice.
Faithbase
A community and resource hub for Christian technologists based in Romania developing faith-informed approaches to the ethics of AI.
AI Ethics & Faith Event
Hosted at Lambeth Palace in January 2026, co-organised and chaired by Charles Larkin, Director of Research at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, and the Revd Dr Malcolm Brown. Read about it on ART-AI’s website, a UKRI funded Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI.
Theos Think Tank
Theos stimulates the debate about the place of religion in society, challenging and changing ideas through research, commentary and events, including work on digital futures and AI ethics.
The Oxford Collaboration on Theology and Artificial Intelligence (OCTAI), University of Oxford
An interdisciplinary project from Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion, seeking to develop vocational principles for AI engineers and business leaders. Has produced the Oxford Oath for AI Practitioners.
Christianity and AI: Imago Dei and the Algorithmic Society, Harvard University (October 2025)
A major conference convened by Harvard’s Christianity & The Common Good initiative, exploring what it means to be human, to learn, and to build good community.
DELTA Network: A Faith-Based Framework for AI Ethics, University of Notre Dame
Backed by a $50.8 million Lilly Endowment grant, the DELTA framework proposes a constructive, faith-informed approach to AI that goes beyond an “ethical floor” of safety toward active human flourishing.
Wisdom in the Age of AI Conference, Calvin University (2026)
A one-day event designed to help Christian leaders seek wisdom on AI as it relates to the practices of ministry and the faith formation of church members.
FaithTech
A global tech community for Christ active in 50+ cities across 22 countries. Their FaithTech Playbook offers a framework for building “redemptive technology.”
AI and Faith
A pluralist community of expert technologists, professionals and faith leaders bringing time-tested values to the ethical AI conversation.
Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT)
A partnership of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church, supporting churches to work for peace and justice by engaging with public policy issues
Student Christian Movement (SCM)
A community of students committed to an inclusive, progressive and radical approach to the Christian faith.
Church resources
Church of Scotland AI Congregational resource series (2022)
Prayers for digital justice – Speaking Life and Justice In the Digital Space | World Council of Churches
Read: Articles
How Ministry Leaders and Churches Are Embracing AI with Purpose and Faith, Hartford International University (August 2025)
Data-rich article showing the practical reality of AI freeing ministry time while maintaining clear ethical boundaries.
AI Won’t Save Us, But It Can Help, Kara Martin, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (March 2025)
An accessible piece arguing that the church has good work to do ensuring AI enriches the world, highlighting the “sacredness of work” and AI-human collaboration.
An Introduction to Access Technology for the Faith Community, Dr Skylar Covich, AI and Faith (October 2025)
A blind Catholic scholar explores how AI-powered accessibility tools are transforming participation in faith communities for disabled people.
Theological Frontiers for AI Creativity, Mark Graves, AI and Faith (June 2025)
Explores Philip Hefner’s “created co-creators” concept to frame AI creativity as a theological opportunity rather than a threat.
The Missiology of AI and Mission, Wycliffe Global Alliance (January 2026)
Argues that AI can serve God and his mission by alleviating suffering, improving communication, and aiding Scripture translation.
Quit ChatGPT: right now! by Rutger Bregman, The Guardian (March 2026)
Historian Rutger Bregman argues that AI giants like ChatGPT could be stopped because of the history of successful consumer boycotts.
Renewed call for national conversation on AI and the Future of Work | The Church of England (October 2025)
Church of England academics and policy advisers renewed calls for a national conversation on the impact of artificial intelligence on the world of work, in a series of articles for Crucible, the journal of Christian social ethics.
Annissa La Touche, ‘AI and Human Rights: Reflections on expert panels, stands against Palantir, and the utilization of AI in genocide’, The Cambridge Student (29 July 2024)
This article follows up on a panel in May 2024 hosted by Cambridge University’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights, highlighting the role of AI in military technologies against civilians, particularly in Gaza. She emphasises the partiality of AI in reinforcing hierarchies of oppression, state sovereignty and crackdown on public protest.
AI, Justice, and Creation Care: An update from the AI Working Group – The Methodist Church (September 2025)
A summary of the Methodist Church’s Artificial Intelligence Working Group’s meeting in September 2025. It highlights the mainstream nature of AI conversation, and the overlap with the Methodist Church’s commitment to ‘justice, care for creation, and human flourishing’. Featuring research presented by Izzy-May Solomon.
The Baptist Union of Great Britain: The Church is taking on AI, here’s how (November 2023)
A piece by Chris Goswami for Baptist Times, written as the UK Government hosted the world’s first Global AI Safety Summit in 2023. It balances the positives and negatives of AI use in church spaces, and highlights the important work of the AI-Christian Partnership.
Airstrikes by AI: who is accountable? – Joint Public Issues Team (March 2026)
Written by Adam Aucock for the JPIT blog. He highlights the use of technology in warfare in the Middle East, draws on past campaigns on banning autonomous weapons, and includes a prayer.
Read: Books
Kester Brewin, God-like: a 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence in Myths, Machines and Monsters
A historical analysis of why humans are fascinated by machines and technologies, and what we can do with them.
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, The Anatomy of an AI System
Shows that AI is not an abstract or immaterial system, but one rooted in extraction, labour, energy use, logistics, and power.
Nello Cristianini, The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us
A strong accessible introduction for non-specialists trying to understand what AI is and isn’t.
Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror
Especially useful on how AI reflects and reshapes human values, institutions, and social practices.
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
Important for understanding the material and political dimensions of AI, including labour, resources, data extraction, and power.
Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology
Very useful on bias, inequality, and the myth of technological neutrality.
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power
Artificial Intelligence and the Image of God: Are We More than Intelligent Machines? by Marius Dorobantu (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Rigorously examines how AI challenges and illuminates Christian anthropology.
The Robot Will See You Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Christian Faith edited by John Wyatt (SPCK, 2021)
International contributors explore a range of ethical issues raised by AI alongside theological responses from an orthodox Christian perspective.
Made in Our Image: God, Artificial Intelligence and You by Stephen Driscoll (Matthias Media)
Offers accessible insights into the nature of AI alongside practical tips on how Christians might use this technology for good.
The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age by Noreen L. Herzfeld (Fortress Press, 2023)
Explores what it means to create AI in our own image and whether authentic relationships with AI are possible.
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for the Perplexed by Simon Cross (Grove Books)
A short, accessible booklet that aims to empower readers to welcome AI’s potential while rejecting temptations to reduce human dignity.
The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World by Andy Crouch (Penguin, 2022)
Shows how we can fight back for relationship, from the generosity of early Christians to entrepreneurs creating more humane technology.
God, Technology, and the Christian Life by Tony Reinke (Crossway, 2022)
Dismantles common myths Christians hold about technology, helping them understand the story of human innovation.
Read: Reports and policy documents
Church of Scotland Artificial Intelligence Report (2021)
Rome Call for AI Ethics
Useful as a concise and accessible values-based statement on AI ethics.
AI Now Institute reports
Helpful for accessible policy-oriented material
UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
International ethics framework.
The Alan Turing Institute’s ethics and governance resources
Useful for UK-facing material on responsible AI.
The Vatican’s reflections on AI and human wisdom
Helpful for theological reflection on the difference between machine capability and human wisdom. Antiqua et nova. Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence (28 January 2025)
AI and the Afterlife: From Digital Mourning to Mind Uploading (Theos, 2024) by Nathan Mladin
Data and Dignity: Why Privacy Matters in the Digital Age (Theos, 2022) by Nathan Mladin
DELTA Framework - University of Notre Dame / Lilly Endowment
The most heavily funded faith-based AI ethics initiative in the world, offering practical resources for scholars, religious leaders, and tech leaders.
Imago Dei in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Marius Dorobantu, ISCAST Journal
Academic article exploring how AI challenges and creates opportunities for theological anthropology.
Oxford Oath for AI Practitioners - OCTAI, University of Oxford
A set of constructive vocational principles for AI engineers and business leaders.
ISCAST: Christian Resources for AI
A curated resource page from the Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology.
