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Aug. 15, 2026

Word for the Week | Clean Hands+ ... Ministry with Integrity in the Age of AI

What does a preacher's integrity look like in an age of Artificial Intelligence? Biblically, it looks totally as it always has! In this Word for the Week, Rev Simon Bowkett works through five Pauline texts on ministerial integrity (2 Corinthians 2:17, 2 Corinthians 4:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:3-6, 1 Corinthians 4:1-2, Galatians 1:10) to ask a question nobody else seems to be asking ... When more than one pair of hands, human or artificial, has touched God's word before it reaches you, what does
Aug. 14, 2026

Super Short Thought | The Name on the Line: What Paul Teaches Us About AI

Who actually stands behind the words you're reading? At the University of Aberystwyth, where questions of authorship and authority obviously matter deeply, Rev Simon Bowkett asks the most important question Christians should be asking about Artificial Intelligence: who is prepared to put their name on this content? The Apostle Paul took personal accountability in communication seriously, often signing epistles in his own handwriting so people would know it was genuinely him (2 Thessalonians 3:
Aug. 13, 2026

Super Short Thought | AI Week #2 | Not a Bot: Why the Person Behind the Words Matters | WelshRev

Why does the same set of words carry weight when a person says them, but fall flat the moment we realise a machine generated them? In this Super Short Thought, filmed in Aberystwyth, Simon explores why communication is never just information transfer. It's people aligning their minds together, an interpersonal act, not a data exchange. When this Rev publishes something under his name, he's not just publishing words, he's giving his word for things he's tried and tested and found to be true. A
Aug. 10, 2026

Can AI Ever Be a Christian Communicator? | SST from Aberystwyth

Filmed on location at a conference at Aberystwyth University (yes, that's the Chaplaincy Land Rover parked outside) this Super Short Thought asks a question that seems to matter more with every passing day: In the age of AI, what actually makes Christian communication consistently Christian? Firstly, in this SST, it's not about being physically in the room. The Apostle Paul wrote deeply personal letters to churches he'd never visited, so clearly "personal" and "in-person" are not the same thi

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Aug. 16, 2026

Handling the Word with Clean Hands: What Paul Would Say About AI in Sermon Prep

Somewhere in the preparation of most things I put in front of you now, a piece of software has had a hand in it. Not writing my convictions for me, but helping me search, draft, and sharpen. And that raises a question worth sitting with honestly: wh…
Aug. 1, 2026

The Afternoon That Changed Everything - getting close in with Mark 5:21-43

Today we dig into a 'slow burner'. What I'm suggesting is that there are passages in the gospels that you get to grips with only slowly. It can take years. You think you know them, and then you read them again and something you missed the first d…
July 23, 2026

"I Hope You Are Well": What a Royal Welsh Show Crowd Taught Me About 3 John 2

Every email seems to start the same way now: "Dear so-and-so, I hope you are well." We type it without thinking. It's become background noise, a courtesy we barely mean. But that little phrase is older than any of us realise. Right at the start …

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Simon Bowkett