It's Wednesday, November the 19th, 2025. Welcome.

We're glad you've joined us for the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison.

A chatbot is a program or application that users can converse with using voice or text.

The bots simulate human conversation by using natural language processing to understand users and respond to their questions.

I suppose it was inevitable that chatbots would come not only to customer service, e-commerce,

entertainment, and media, but also to the church.

Here are some examples.

One Day Confession uses AI to, quote, stimulate the experience of confessing to a Catholic priest,

providing thoughtful responses based on biblical teachings and principles.

In quote, Confession Catholic also allows the user to enter the content to ask for forgiveness and then receive forgiveness from the app.

Episcobot.com allows users to ask questions and receive answers reflecting the teaching and policies of the

Episcopal Church. A pastor named Ron Carpenter has created an AI app that allows you to ask

questions and receive answers drawn from his sermon archive. And there's even text with Jesus, an AI-powered chatbot build as, quote,

a divine connection in your pocket. It invites you to embark on a spiritual journey and engage

in enlightening conversations with Jesus Christ, the apostles, and a multitude of other revered

figures from the Bible, end quote." Of course, chat box creating

the illusion that we're talking directly with Jesus are just that, illusions. However, many of us

who would never use an app to talk to Christ nonetheless have a quote-unquote chatbot relationship with the real Jesus.

I know. For many years, I was one of them.

As I have recounted, I grew up in a family that never attended church services.

I believe that there was a God, but had no concept of a personal relationship with him.

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