What is God up to amid the global introduction of AI technologies? And how do we enter this unfolding story to shape it toward possibility rather than peril? Meeting in Minneapolis in August of 2025, the Faithful Futures Summit 2025 drew together four co-organizing denominations, sixteen Christian traditions, and three faiths represented among its in-person and online participants to reflect on “guiding AI with wisdom and witness.”
The four participating denominations were the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America; the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and The Episcopal Church. AI and Faith was also part of the planning team for this event.
Organizers have now published a Journal of the summit’s content, 86 pages detailing the keynote presentations and 11 mini-presentations on AI research, leadership, curriculum design, and writing. It includes an exciting social simulation prepared for this conference by Jane McGonigal, Institute for the Future (IFTF)’s Director of Social Simulation and New York Times bestselling author of Imaginable: How to Create a Hopeful Future — in Your Own Life, Community and the World. The exercise asked what kind of spiritual world AI might create—or destroy—ten years in the future, and how the Church might respond.
