AI Goes to Church: Pastoral Wisdom for Artificial Intelligence
By Todd Korpi
InterVarsity Press, 240 pages
Published September 30, 2025
The widespread adoption of AI tools is dramatically outpacing our careful reflection and discourse on the subject,” writes missiologist Todd Korpi. AI Goes to Church is his effort to step back and ask the questions needed to understand how AI can aid the church’s mission. AI novices will appreciate his brief overview of the technology, and readers will enjoy the way he connects it with biblical interpretation. Korpi writes to a broad audience, asking provocative questions: If AI harms an individual or group, who has sinned? As AI more realistically simulates our behavior, what does it mean to be fully human? And, more practically, how do we use AI in the service of the church’s mission? The result is a thoughtful engagement with the pitfalls and promise of a new technology.
Serial Fixer: Break Free from the Habit of Solving Other People’s Problems
By Leah Marone
Broadleaf Books, 233 pages
Published November 11, 2025
There’s a reason boundary training is required for church leaders — we are particularly prone to making everyone’s problems our own. Psychotherapist Leah Marone categorizes us as either saints, doormats or steamrollers, and her “support, don’t solve” framework promises a better way for all types. With relatable case studies and practical strategies, Serial Fixer’s approach affirms our compassion while showing healthier ways to deepen connections.
Get Over Here: A Single’s Guide to Building Meaningful Community
By Melissa Zaldivar
Revell, 194 pages
Published July 22, 2025
No church sets out to be unwelcoming to singles, who (according to Barna Research)
make up 31% of churchgoers. Yet Melissa Zaldivar is often discouraged “by the reality of how isolating something as beautiful as the church can be” to those who show up solo on Sunday morning. Get Over Here offers thoughtful and practical reflections for Christian singles seeking proximity and community within the church, as well as a theology of singleness to educate church leaders. She weaves her lived experiences with those of Jesus and his disciples, incorporating other biblical ways of being in relationship, without being coupled. Check out this book to jumpstart a singles ministry or add depth and texture to existing ones.
Faithful Futures: Sacred Tools for Engaging Younger Generations
By Josh Packard
Baker Academic
Published October 14, 2025
“Sacred listening” is at the heart of ministry, writes Josh Packard, and we must listen with intention if we are to reach emerging generations. When we do this well, individuals feel deeply loved; when we repeat this practice, groups and entire generations are more readily understood. As a sociologist, Packard has practiced this enough to develop tools and techniques for youth ministers and others to follow. This makes it sound like a how-to manual, but Packard’s engaging style, relatable examples and solid research make Faithful Futures a useful tool as well as a treat to read.
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