Artificial intelligence does more than raise technical questions; it presses the deeper question of what it means to be human. Camden Bucey speaks with Jason Thacker, author of The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, about human dignity, the image of God, and the crucial distinction between a human person and a machine.

They consider how Christians can receive technology as a tool under God’s providence without confusing imitation with intelligence, convenience with communion, or productivity with personal worth. The conversation also explores how technology forms its users, why embodied life and genuine relationships matter, and how transhumanism redirects the human longing for life beyond death toward technological self-salvation.

Against both utopian promises and dystopian fear, Thacker points to the sufficiency of Scripture and the hope of the risen Christ. Christians can engage emerging technologies wisely because human identity is given by the Creator, human dignity cannot be earned or erased, and Christ remains Lord over every age.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:19 Meet Jason Thacker

03:24 From public policy to AI ethics

06:05 Teaching ethics, philosophy, and technology

09:53 AI’s anthropological challenge

12:58 What has changed since The Age of AI?

14:55 Humanizing machines and dehumanizing people

19:55 The image of God and human dignity

25:39 AI companionship and simulated relationships

28:11 How technology forms and disciples us

34:00 Embodiment, materialism, and personal identity

42:20 Transhumanism and the longing for immortality

48:35 Engaging Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical

53:22 Technology as ecological change

54:43 Scripture, Christian hope, and the future

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This is the second lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ. This lesson covers the following topics:

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Camden Bucey speaks with economist Shawn Ritenour about what makes an account of economics distinctly Christian. They discuss economic law as part of God’s created order and the biblical principles shaping stewardship, private property, labor, capital, exchange, and care for those in need. Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas provides the occasion for a searching conversation about the universal destination of goods, Big Tech, data, subsidiarity, sphere sovereignty, GDP, and human dignity.

The conversation presses beneath policy to theology. Neither markets nor governments escape the effects of sin, and material prosperity must never be confused with sanctification. Christians seek just and prudent arrangements in this age while recognizing that scarcity, exploitation, and disordered desire will not finally be overcome by human construction. The church’s hope rests in the crucified and risen Christ and the consummation of his kingdom.

• Economic law, creation, and Christian stewardship
• Private property, labor, capital, exchange, and human dignity
• Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas and Catholic social teaching
• GDP, inequality, and the common good
• The universal destination of goods
• Data, privacy, Big Tech, and non-rivalrous goods
• Subsidiarity and Kuyperian sphere sovereignty
• Universal basic income and the economic disruption of AI
• Sin, scarcity, eschatology, and Christian hope

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 02:09 What makes economics Christian?
• 09:52 Economics at Grove City College
• 14:01 Introducing Magnifica Humanitas
• 19:23 GDP and the dignity of the human person
• 23:46 The common good, inequality, and economic law
• 29:36 Private property, markets, and solidarity
• 35:12 The universal destination of goods
• 43:20 Data, privacy, and non-rivalrous goods
• 50:21 Subsidiarity and sphere sovereignty
• 55:04 Big Tech, state privilege, and central banking
• 58:02 Labor, capital, and human worth
• 63:26 Universal basic income in the age of AI
• 72:33 Economics between the fall and the consummation
• 80:03 Resources and conclusion

This is the first lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ. This lesson covers the following topics:

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What does it mean to cultivate a life of Reformed piety? Camden Bucey speaks with Joel Beeke about the ordinary practices by which God forms reverential love for himself in Christian homes: Scripture reading, prayer, singing, biblical meditation, family worship, and faithful participation in the church’s public worship.

Dr. Beeke explains why meditation serves as a “halfway house” between Bible reading and prayer, how deliberate meditation gives rise to spontaneous reflection throughout the day, and why small, repeated habits often bear their richest fruit over decades. The conversation offers practical encouragement for parents, spouses, pastors, and every believer who desires an integrated life of devotion—one in which home, church, and daily vocation are oriented toward the glory of God and maturity in Christ.

• Reformed piety as reverential love for God
• Building durable habits of family worship
• Reading Scripture, praying, singing, and instructing children
• Praying with one’s spouse
• Deliberate and spontaneous biblical meditation
• Carrying the ministry of the Word from church into the home
• Preparing the family for the Lord’s Day
• The long-term fruit of ordinary spiritual disciplines

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:41 Puritan Reformed Seminary, Reformation Heritage Books, and current ministry
• 06:24 Recent and forthcoming books
• 15:05 Cultivating Reformed piety in the home
• 16:22 Family worship and the Family Worship Bible Guide
• 24:46 Prayer with one’s spouse and family
• 27:22 Biblical meditation between reading and prayer
• 34:03 Recommended writers on Reformed piety
• 40:04 Connecting church, home, and school
• 45:51 The Lord’s Day as an uninterrupted exercise of piety
• 51:13 Beginning family worship simply
• 53:58 Cultivating spontaneous prayer and spiritual conversation
• 55:50 Conclusion

This is the sixth lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton and Rev. Adam York’s Reformed Academy course, The Unfolding Mystery: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers Chapter 9 of Edmund P. Clowney’s The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament, addressing the following topics: 00:00 The Servant of the Lord in Isaiah 42 and 53

06:03 Baptism and Temptation

23:12 The Cross as the "Opportune Time"

30:58 Exile as Death

38:56 Isaiah’s Servant Songs and the Christ Hymn (Philippians 2)

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Camden Bucey speaks with Derek C. Schuurman, professor and chair of computer science at Calvin University, about Christian wisdom in the age of artificial intelligence. Drawing upon Shaping a Digital World, Schuurman explains why technology is never neutral: people shape their tools, and those tools in turn reshape habits, institutions, and communities.

The conversation sets contemporary AI within the biblical story of creation, fall, redemption, and new creation. Bucey and Schuurman contrast Christian hope with technicism—the belief that technology can solve humanity’s deepest problems and build a technological heaven on earth. They also discuss human nature, transhumanism, responsible design, Christian higher education, autonomous weapons, and the need to keep human moral judgment and accountability in the loop.

• 00:00 Introduction
• 03:41 Derek C. Schuurman’s path from engineering to Christian higher education
• 08:29 Technology, cultural change, and the need for wisdom
• 11:45 Technology is not neutral
• 14:36 How tools reshape people and societies
• 18:08 Reading technology through creation, fall, redemption, and new creation
• 20:18 Two cities, two loves, and the biblical story
• 22:22 Babel, idolatry, and the temptation to build heaven on earth
• 23:21 Technicism and the promises of Silicon Valley
• 26:52 Transhumanism and a Christian account of humanity
• 29:14 Practical frameworks for responsible technological design
• 30:36 Dooyeweerd’s non-reductionistic view of creation
• 33:19 Eight norms for faithful design
• 37:34 Integrating Christian faith throughout education
• 41:21 Liberal arts, AI, and well-rounded technical formation
• 42:29 AI, labor, and the human calling to work
• 43:42 Autonomous systems, accountability, and just-war questions
• 45:55 Why moral judgment requires a human in the loop
• 49:12 Faithful presence and wise Christian vocation
• 51:41 Resources for engineers, designers, pastors, and parents
• 53:24 Calvin University’s “Wisdom in the Age of AI” conference
• 55:36 Conclusion

• Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture and Computer Technology
• A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers
• Wisdom in the Age of AI Conference, Calvin University, October 8–10, 2026
• Magnifica Humanitas
• Episode resources

Join Mark and Andrew as they discuss how to preach Ruth 3:1–10, where Naomi shows signs of new hope, leading to her and Ruth making Boaz a proposal—a proposal which points to the work of Christ himself. There are numerous points of application in this familiar passage.

This is the fifth lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton and Rev. Adam York’s Reformed Academy course, The Unfolding Mystery: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers Chapters 7–8 of Edmund P. Clowney’s The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament, addressing the following topics:

00:00 Revelation 20–21 and the Final Judgment

07:12 Joshua and the Theocratic Ethic

11:00 Abraham and the Pilgrim Ethic

15:39 Common Grace, Holy War, and Intrusion Ethics

25:03 The Lord's Anointed and Goliath

31:08 The Prince of Peace and the Temple of Rest

40:15 Solomon, Wisdom, and the Temple Filled with Glory

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Camden Bucey speaks with Daniel R. Hyde about A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Presence of God (Christian Focus, 2026), tracing this great biblical theme from Eden’s garden sanctuary through the tabernacle, temple, exile, incarnation, church, and new creation. Scripture’s map leads not to a sacred location or a fleeting spiritual sensation, but to Jesus Christ, the true temple and the glory of God dwelling among us.

The conversation also offers pastoral help for seasons when God feels distant. Feelings ebb and flow, but the Lord’s covenant promises remain sure. Through the Holy Spirit, Christ meets his people in the ordinary means of grace and gathers them as his body. The Christian hope reaches its fullness in Revelation 22:4: the redeemed will see God’s face in the risen and glorified Christ.

• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:58 A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Presence of God
• 01:39 Ministry at Oceanside United Reformed Church
• 02:59 The biblical theology series and the book’s origins
• 05:28 Augustine and discovering the Bible’s great theme
• 08:18 Is God’s presence a feeling?
• 11:32 A map to a person, not a place
• 12:59 Omnipresence and covenant presence
• 16:42 God’s presence as blessing and judgment
• 17:58 The presence of God across redemptive history
• 18:29 Eden as the first earthly temple
• 21:14 Edenic imagery in the tabernacle and temple
• 24:49 Worship, geography, and reversing exile
• 29:29 Exile and the departure of God’s glory
• 32:45 Jesus Christ as the return of the glory
• 33:05 When believers feel that God is distant
• 37:34 The ordinary means of grace
• 38:01 The Holy Spirit as a divine person
• 40:57 God’s presence in the gathered church
• 46:03 Seeing the face of God in Christ
• 50:40 Living as the people of God’s presence
• 52:49 Michael Morales’s book in Rome
• 54:07 Conclusion

• A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Presence of God
• Episode resources

Camden Bucey and Daniel R. Hyde