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Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength: Andy Crouch told us that AI is quietly coming for all four.
When Jesus named the greatest commandment, he didn`t pick one part of us, he named the whole person: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." (Mark 12:30)
In our new episode, Andy Crouch makes an unsettling case: technology has spent a century slowly wearing down each of those four. Machines took our strength. Computers took our minds. Now AI is reaching for the rest—and the strange part is how good it feels on the way down. It`s a conversation you don`t want to miss, listen in.
Most of the world runs on a quiet assumption: that power is what`s ultimately real. Get enough of it, and you can protect and provide for the people like you.
In this week`s episode, Andy Crouch names the idea he thinks quietly overturns all of that: "The most revolutionary idea in the Bible is that the deepest reality of the cosmos is love, not power." A God who didn`t need to create, creating anyway — pouring out love on a world that could never repay it.
It reframes everything, including how we think about AI. Because AI is very good at giving us more power. It has almost nothing to offer us about love.
We were made to love God with all four parts of ourselves: our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Andy Crouch`s unsettling observation is that technology has been quietly wearing each one down for a hundred years. Machines took our strength. Computers took our minds. And now AI is reaching for what`s left: our relationships, our grief, our wonder, even our prayers.
The trap isn`t that it feels bad. It`s that cognitive offloading feels wonderful—right up until you notice what`s gone soft.
Swipe through for the whole arc, then tell us: which of the four do you feel slipping first?
AI will always give you an answer, and that`s exactly the problem.
Our friend Andy Crouch is back to talk all things AI, and ask the question we think we all are in our current moment: is the lack of friction in an AI world making us less human?
Wonder, silence, sacrificial love, sitting with someone in their suffering—are the very things AI is offering to take off our hands. "Don`t take a forklift to the gym of being human," he told us. Convenience feels like pure gift, right up until you notice what it`s quietly costing you.
This is the first episode in our new series on the explosive impact of AI, and of course Andy had to kick us off! Listen in.
This episode of the Good Faith podcast features a discussion about artificial intelligence and is created with support from DELTA at the University of Notre Dame`s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, focused on human formation in the age of AI.
Some Christians will tell you that taking an antidepressant means you don`t trust God. Matt Loftus has heard all of it: including that medication will "dull the voice of the Holy Spirit."
His response is bracing and freeing: the Holy Spirit still speaks. We can`t tinker with our brain chemistry enough to shut God out. Loftus is a physician who takes psychiatric medication himself, so this isn`t theory—it`s a word from someone who`s needed both the medicine and the grace.
If you`ve ever felt guilty for getting the help you need, this one`s for you. Listen in to our latest episode.
Most of us never stop to ask whether our therapy is actually working, we just assume that going is the same as getting better.
Dr. Matt Loftus, a physician who treats mental illness himself, gave us a simple gut-check (swipe through for all four). Good therapy challenges you, asks the questions you`d rather dodge, pushes you toward real relationships, and — over time — actually moves the needle on your symptoms. Therapy culture does the opposite. It hands you language to stay exactly where you are.
Run yourself through the questions, which landed the hardest for you? Don’t miss the full conversation.
How do you know if your therapy is actually helping you, or just keeping you comfortable?
Matt Loftus gave us the clearest test we`ve heard: a good therapist pushes you toward the things that are hard, asks the questions you`d rather avoid, and helps you own what you can actually change. Therapy culture does the opposite. It hands you the language to stay exactly where you are.
Loftus isn`t against therapy—he`s a physician who treats mental illness himself. That`s what makes this line land. He`s naming the difference from the inside. This is a conversation you don’t want to miss. Listen in.
Matt Loftus left us with this: there is nothing you can do or think that will separate you from God`s love. Then we realized he was basically quoting Paul.
"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." — Romans 8:38-39
In this week`s episode, Loftus talks about how mental illness distorts the truth—how in the depths of it, the lie feels truer than anything. This is the verse that holds when your own mind won`t. Not one thing on Paul`s list can reach the love that`s already yours.
What`s the truth you`re having to preach to yourself this week?
The full conversation on faith, therapy, and suffering is worth your time. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
Your pastor is not your therapist. And Matt Loftus says pretending otherwise makes everyone miserable.
We couldn`t stop thinking about this one. So much of what wears out pastors—and disappoints the people in the pews—comes from asking the church to be something it was never meant to be. Loftus, a physician who treats mental illness himself, isn`t anti-therapy. He`s just clear-eyed about what a church is actually for.
Where have you seen the church try to do therapy`s job, and what happened?
This whole conversation reframed how we think about the line between the two. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
There has been a fourfold increase in Americans seeing a therapist since 1998. Many of us are better for it (Curtis included). But what happens to a whole culture when the therapy mindset seeps into everything?
That`s the question at the heart of this week`s episode. Curtis sits down with Dr. Matt Loftus—a physician who treats mental illness, takes psychiatric medication himself, and has walked through depression—for a conversation that`s as personal as it is challenging.
Loftus isn`t anti-therapy. He`s asking a sharper question: what happens when we medicalize normal grief, judge every institution by how it makes us feel, and slowly lose our sense of agency? And what does the church have to offer that a therapist never can?
It`s honest about suffering, clear about grace, and full of lines we`re still thinking about. New episode out now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Curtis Chang almost didn`t recognize his own father. He was three, newly landed in Chicago, hiding behind his mom because his dad had gone ahead to the States two years earlier.
Swipe through for the story he told Lee C. Camp on No Small Endeavor: growing up between two cultures, never quite American enough or Chinese enough, and how that in-between became the thing that shaped his whole life. What looked like not belonging turned out to be preparation. The displacement made him a bridge person, and bridge-building became his calling.
It`s a quietly powerful reminder that the hardest parts of our story can become the gift we have to offer. Where have you seen that be true in your own life? Listen in to the full conversation.
Ever notice how a group of decent people can add up to something kind of awful? No Small Endeavor’s Lee C. Camp put words to it: "Societal embodiments of humankind always seem to multiply the ugly parts of us."
Curtis doesn`t deny it, he just refuses to stop there. On this week`s episode he argues that institutions multiply our best right alongside our worst, and that changes what we owe them.
That back-and-forth is the whole reason to listen. Full episode out now.
