What is artificial intelligence? We started this conversation a week ago talking about AI and some of the dangerous aspects of this technology, but do we really understand what it is?

We used to say, a generation ago, what is this thing called electronic mail? Now, email is commonplace the world over. Then we said, what is the internet? What is Google? What is a search engine? And today we say, what is AI? Well, it’s simply the next generation of the discovery of data and one of these days, it will be as commonplace and normal to us all of those other things. So, what is artificial intelligence?

Lynn Vincent, “Crouching at the keyboard,” January 1, 2026.

Maria Baer, “AI is not your mom,” September 23, 2025.

Samuel D. James, “AI and the crisis of truth,” September 5, 2025.

What would you do if you received a video message from your pastor, the trusted shepherd you have great confidence in, what if he asked you to give money to meet an urgent ministry need he was dealing with? Would you help him? Would you send him money? What you should do is be skeptical that the video is even from him.

Associated Press, “The faith-based tech boom is here—chat with ‘BuddhaBot’ or pay $1.99 for AI Jesus,” April 10, 2026.

Maria Baer, “AI is not your mom,” September 23, 2025.

Samuel D. James, “AI and the crisis of truth,” September 5, 2025.

How did Jesus know when his day was finished? There was always someone else to talk to, always someone else to heal, always more work to do, always more demands on his time. How did Jesus know when this particular day was finished? It’s a question I have asked all of my young pastors because it deals with a common problem, particularly among pastors, but also among all Christians. It is what I call the indispensability syndrome. Pastors sometimes feel the need to be omnipotent. Let’s talk about that.

TruthCurrents is about learning how to think biblically about current events. Occasionally, somebody will approach me and say, “Pastor, I appreciate you helping me to learn how to think biblically, but now, what do I do? What actions follow thinking biblically about the events of our day?” Let’s talk about that.

Richard Wurmbrand, “How Wide is Your Concern?” The Voice of the Martyrs, Vol. 60, No. 4, April 2026.

Emily A. Cole, “Our powerful tool against persecution,” January 14, 2026.

Chuck Colson once famously said that the way to evaluate a worldview is to answer this question: can you actually live by that worldview? Well, apparently the worldview of the radical left is becoming increasingly difficult to live by. There are some real ironic happenings in this area. Let’s talk about them.

Emma Freire, “Socialism’s Salesman,” March 12, 2026.

Nathanael Blake, “Escape from Seattle,” March 19, 2026.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr. “The Culture of Death wins yet again,” March 19, 2026.

There was book published in 2006 with the title, “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.” Now at the time, people criticized the book as clickbait, a little over the top, but as it turns out, new scientific research shows us that, in fact, that statement is true. Liberalism, leftism, progressivism is, in fact, a mental disorder. Let’s talk about that.

Thaddeus Williams, “Why leftism is bad for mental health,” March 12, 2026.

Glenn T. Stanton, “The happiness divide,” December 4, 2025.

David Mitzenmacher, “Marriage is good and water is wet,” September 23, 2025.

If you listen to television preachers, right now you think that Christianity is at an all-time high; things are great, couldn’t be better. We are all living our best life now. The fact of the matter is, American Christianity is in a battle for eternity with both an external enemy and an internal enemy. And somebody needs to talk about this.

A.S. Ibrahim, “The occupation of Times Square,” March 9, 2026.

David French, “James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray,” New York Times, March 8, 2026.

Joseph Backholm, “The left makes a play for Christian votes” March 4, 2026.

“Go to hell!” Have you ever heard anybody say that in anger? It’s interesting that even people who claim to not believe in hell will use that phrase. People never say, “Go to Hogwarts!” Or “Go to Mordor!” They say, “go to hell.” I think the reason that we do that is because, unlike Hogwarts or Mordor, deep down, deep in our souls in places that sometimes we’re not even aware of for ourselves, we all know that hell is a real place. We need to talk about that.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr. “The deadly danger of remodeling hell,” December 11, 2025.