About

This website is mostly an AI aggregation of resources I’ve produced. AI is good at organising things, good at doing a summary, but pretty shit at being a minister. I’m not much better but I’m me. Also, I like to think. My happiest times are when I can think. Or read. Or write. Why give the good things over to AI?

I have trained this bot on every sermon I’ve preached since ordination, every liturgy I’ve written, every newsletter article I’ve written, and a few academic pieces I’ve done. The more I write, the more it learns.

I then trained it on a few trusted websites, some liturgical resources, and my personal library (it hasn’t read all my books, but it will search for what it knows about them). I have also given it access to a log of the songs my current congregation sing (this log is kinda out of date, but it’s the best I have). You’ll note it knows about my Spotify listening habits—my community often has a pop song as a meditation piece, and I’m experimenting with it recommending music based on the readings (my first attempts were pretty woeful; it suggested artists I’d never heard of).

My hope is that this can be a useful resource for, well, me and possibly you.

For Worship Leaders, it will make a suggested list of resources for the upcoming week. It refreshes on a Wednesday evening and generally runs four weeks in advance. My hope is that it will have an idea about what I’ve said on each reading in the past (and maybe make an educated guess at what I will say). This is experimental.

For preachers, it refreshes on a Monday evening. Again, it should stick fairly close to my teachings. I will continue to refine this bot — if you have thoughts, please get in touch. You will see the 11 ‘questions’ it must answer.

Also, we are using The Women’s Lectionary this year. It is excellent, but there are limited online resources. I suspect this bot thingy will do better next year when we return to the RCL.