Debate on AI in church 'urgently needed'
Graham Nicholls
Date posted: 17 Jan 2025
Towards the end of last year, Affinity organised a webinar to discuss important questions around artificial intelligence use in the church.
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to feature prominently in the news, whether in discussions about replacing humans for practical or social tasks, medical diagnostic tools, or deepfake videos. There is no doubt about the benefits of some AI tools; only this week, I came across an AI service that offered to handle charitable grant applications. This immediately appealed to me, having found the process tedious and frustrating in the past.
What is evangelical unity? Does it even matter?
Graham Nicholls
Date posted: 1 Nov 2023
What is evangelical unity and does it matter? And anyway, who’s to say what an evangelical actually is, and even then, what would visible evangelical unity look like?
That was part of our discussion at the autumn meeting of the Affinity Council – a group of leaders from churches and Christian organisations that help guide Affinity as we set our priorities.
standing together
Post-Christian Christianity
Graham Nicholls
Date posted: 1 May 2017
How does the church operate in an increasingly hostile culture which no longer assumes Christianity is essentially good?
That was the topic when around 75 people, mostly church leaders and theological students from across the whole of the UK and from widely different denominational groups came together in March for the biennial Affinity Theological Study Conference.
