WelshRev's Podcast

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 fai

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:

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

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