Does too much Artificial Intelligence hinder Christian growth?
Posted By RichC on April 19, 2026
Our daughter sent ;us some thought provoking reading from The Gospel Coalition regarding Artificial Intelligence and the “uncomfortable or even disturbing truths about ourselves” last week.
“Are You Ready for the AI Apocalypse” was written last summer, but noting the rapid evolution of AI, it is equally eye-opening today.
AI presents us with a vision of almost infinite productivity and almost zero friction, and in this way it acts like a living thought experiment to help us see something that was hiding in plain sight all along: Friction is a gym for the soul. The awkward conversation, the blank page, the child who won’t sleep when we have a report to write––these aren’t roadblocks to our growth; they’re the highway to wisdom and maturity, to being the sort of people who can deal with friction in life with resilience and grace. Without it, we remain weak and small, however impressive our productivity.
We can have too much friction; we knew that already. But AI, perhaps for the first time, shows us we can also have too little. Without friction, we can never become “the sort of person who . . .”
And since this topic is a bit too deep at the moment for me, I’ll gaze at the simple (but beautifully created) jellyfish 
and settle for being amazed with God’s awesome handiwork — it is beautiful (yes, from our beach walking this past winter).
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