Dan Tries AI Biblical Counseling (#380)
Religion on the Mind
Religion on the Mind
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody, to Religion on the Mind. |
| 0:11.1 | I am your host, Dr. Dan Koch, licensed therapist. |
| 0:15.4 | And that licensed therapist thing is going to come up today, big time. |
| 0:19.0 | I am joined by also big time friend of the pod, |
| 0:23.6 | Heather Patton Griffin. Heather, welcome back. Thank you, Dan. Good to see you again. |
| 0:28.7 | You've been on a few times, but most notably a longtime listener favorite episode. It happens to be |
| 0:34.8 | episode number 123, so it's very easy for me to remember. |
| 0:38.5 | One, two, three, where we talked about, really, you laid out your kind of vision of the |
| 0:45.6 | interior workings. |
| 0:46.8 | I believe you called it the sort of interior navigation system of white evangelicalism in the |
| 0:52.8 | States as you had experienced it, your insights around that have |
| 0:56.9 | proved to be quite valuable to myself and thousands of listeners. It's one of the episodes I get |
| 1:03.4 | the most comments about still to this day from people. And what happened is I started engaging |
| 1:10.6 | in this AI biblical counseling. I mean, |
| 1:13.9 | you know, half jokingly. Let's be truthful here. But as I did it, I just kept thinking of your work |
| 1:20.6 | and your concepts around that stuff. So I thought, hey, do you want to record? And let's talk |
| 1:26.0 | about that. And let's also talk through my experiment with the biblical counseling app, the AI biblical counseling app. Wait, there's a real app. Oh, this is real. Yeah, yeah. Did you not, oh, what did you think that? What did you? Oh, I thought you were just putting it in chat GPT for fun. No, no, no, no. Okay, yeah. Well, well, I think it will work out the same way. |
| 1:46.5 | I must have not been very clear in texting you. |
| 1:49.7 | I actually want to add one more wrinkle in, which is that after I engaged in this experience |
| 1:56.8 | that we're going to be talking through, and I sent you the transcript and all that stuff, |
| 2:00.3 | we'll be talking through it. I reached out to the CEO of this app, which I will not name. |
| 2:06.4 | I'm not going to name it because I'm not trying to docks anybody. But I told him, I was like, |
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