Creating Wonderfully Human Sermons in an AI Age

Drawing on her research at the intersection of preaching and AI, Alison will lay out three provable limitations of AI when it comes to writing sermons — limitations that aren’t simply about present-day technologies, but limitations that reveal the value and importance of you, as a human being, being the one who writes your sermon.

After a guided discussion of each of these limitations, participants will explore them through practical activities to make their own sermons “more human.” In the end, participants will emerge with a more robust understanding of what is happening when AI is making a sermon, new tools for preaching in an AI age, and a renewed ability to celebrate God’s choosing of wonderfully, human you. 

Alison Gerber, a former Congregational minister, is presently a PhD Candidate at Baylor University in the PhD in Preaching program. Both an award-winning preacher and award-winning writer, her research in AI…