Movie Reviews

MissionalAI 2025

2025-04-19: The King of Kings Movie Review - A New Easter Movie Tradition? Anchored Thought is meant to be a place to think biblically about many things. Today’s post is …

2025-04-18: Excited to release the sixth video (and final?) in my Definitions of Worship series. I hope …

2025-04-18: “I’m goin keep on singing, until my soul catches up with my song.” - Hard Fought Hallelujah

2025-04-17: I want a 3D-printed workshop, outbuilding, or space… really interesting #technology.

2025-04-12: Strive for frequent and supportive relationships. #happiness

2025-04-12: “Happy people love people, use things, and worship the divine; unhappy people use people, love …

2025-04-10: This is a human factors nightmare. It’s significantly harder to read and find your flight than …

2025-04-10: An overview of what’s about to be pitched at MissionAI Missional Labs Pitch Event Virtual Pitch — …

2025-04-10: Many 20th Century Missions Orgs. launched between 1945-1960. Pretty incredible.

2025-04-10: Fireside Chat - Steele Billings & Pat Gelsinger For the last keynote of Missional AI, Steele Billings & Pat Gelsinger from gloo, are chatting …

2025-04-10: Massively Multilingual Langage Technologies - Jean Maillard Next up Jean Maillard, who works on Meta’s Fundamental AI Research team, is talking about some …

2025-04-10: The Future of Missional AI The Missional AI leadership team discussed the future of the Missional AI Summit and the …

2025-04-10: Missed the devotion and the first highlight keynote this morning, but had many outstanding …

2025-04-09: Building with Transparency & Trust - Alex Cook Next is a highlight from Alex Cook, Head of AI Engineering (I think), on the work that’s …

2025-04-09: Developing a Future with Values-Aligned AI Next, Pat Gelsinger of gloo will discuss the future and values-aligned AI. God is the great …

2025-04-09: Christians in Industry - Experts Panel For the next keynote, industry experts are discussing their experiences working as a Christian in …

2025-04-09: Uniquely Human in an Artificial World Next: Michael Arena, who is the Dean of the Crowell School of Business at Biola, is discussing being …

2025-04-09: A Biblical-Theological Framework for Artificial Intelligence - John Dyer The first keynote of the afternoon session is from John Dyer who is a VP at Dallas Theological …

2025-04-09: AI and Web3 Panel This is a panel discussion about AI and Web3. The panel was John Kim (CV Global), John Knox (Gloo), …

2025-04-09: Lessons from the Land of Fundraising: How AI Can Help Solve the Fundraising Crisis - Bryan Brown Next keynote is from Bryan Brown of Masterworks There is a major crisis in Christian fundraising. …

2025-04-09: MAGA: It's All About Alignment - Éric Célérier Next up is Éric Célérier from HelloBible.ai and Jesus.net, Global Ambassador for The Chosen MAGA …

2025-04-09: James "JP" Poulter - The Future of AI Work - Full Stack Professionals The opening keynote is by James “JP” Poulter. There was an increase in the number of …

2025-04-09: Full Post - Morning Devotion: Geof Morin - Biblica - Jesus and Technology The morning devotional was given by Geof Morin of Biblica Jesus used technology and tools to: …

2025-04-09: The Morning #Devotion at Missional AI 2025 is by Geof Morin of Biblica on the topic of #Jesus and …

2025-04-09: You don’t ask good questions if you consistently think you’re right about everything. - paraphrase …

2025-04-08: Scott Meyer - AI Overview and Chipp.AI Scott Meyer - Co-Founder of Chipp.AI AI is your chance to have a teammate. AI is great at what you …

2025-04-08: Kevin Peters - Beyond the Hype: How AI is and will Reshaping Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising Kevin Peters is from Avid AI - Avid AI sits on top of the data to support marketing and fundraising …

2025-04-08: Barbara Villasenor - Founding Story of the Inter-Belief Network (IBN) at Google Next up is Barbara Villasenor telling the story of how the Inter-Belief Network (IBN) formed at …

2025-04-08: Gareth Russell - Jersey Road: Reframing the Public Perception of Christianity Now Gareth Russell from Jersey Road is discussing that the tide is turning for Christian …

2025-04-08: The Sweet Smell of Data: Fertilizing the Work of Bible Translation with AI The next keynote is a panel discussion with: Jacob Bullock Daniel Wilson Damien Daspit Caleb Bruce …

2025-04-08: Richard Zhang - Research Insights on Redemptive Use Cases To start of the afternoon sessions, Richard Zhang opened us in prayer. He’ll be discussing how …

2025-04-08: Collaboration: How the International Mission Board is Collaborating with Organizations to Use AI James Cuthbert from Biblica Don from the International Misson Board Dan from Prediction Guard Scott …

2025-04-08: Venture AI Founder - Bridging the Discipleship Gap Venture AI: AI-Powered Spiritual Formation for GenZ and Beyond People are coming to faith online, …

2025-04-08: Ben Elmore - The Conversational Revolution: Reimagining Digital Discipleship for the AI Era Ben is the founder of servant.io Ben was a marketing professional who has moved into thinking about …

2025-04-08: David Kinnaman of Barna Group - How AI is Shaping the Future of Faith Next is David Kinnaman of Barna Group on How AI is Shaping the Future of Faith Part 1: Five Trends …

2025-04-08: Liz Grennan of McKinsey - Trust and Responsible AI The next keynote is by Liz Grennan of McKinsey (soon in a new role) discussing law and responsible …

2025-04-08: Daniel Whitenack of Protection Guard - AI Agents The first keynote is by Daniel Whitenack of Protection Guard discussing AI Agents. Started with Fox …

2025-04-08: Missional AI Update Joshua Seale opened up the Missional AI Summit with an update to Missional AI Gave a lot of thanks …

2021-12-04: Refining Creative Projects I talked about this model on Focused #140 on the Relay FM podcast network. At some point I’ll come …

2021-11-30: Make Yourself Write Project Proposals I love coming up with new and creative ideas. I like thinking through the purpose of a new project …

2021-10-18: The Do-Nothing Alternative and Our Spiritual Growth OK. You need to make a decision. Maybe it’s a decision with high consequences. Maybe it’s a trivial …

2021-10-12: Ethics and the Facebook Whistleblower If you haven’t seen it yet, 60 Minutes interviewed Fances Haugen about what’s happening inside the …

2021-10-09: about anchored thought is a place to make intentional links between everyday occurrences and biblical …