Join us to learn more about the mission and vision of Faith Tech with our guest speaker, Kevin Burgess, Director of Global Communities at FaithTech Global. Kevin has been part of the leadership at FaithTech since 2019, and he has a passion to see God blurring the boundaries in peoples’ lives across their faith, vocations, and work.
“Built for AI” Conference
This is a conference for pastors and business leaders on the very important subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Join us in person or virtually.
Topics:
- Theology – understanding the church’s role in pioneering technological advancements.
- Motivation – embracing change and the future with faith and foresight.
- Equipping – equipping believers with practical AI tools and knowledge.
- Leadership – leading through innovation.
Click here to register: https://new-england.builtforai.live/
Theology on Tap
If you were going to preach to a robot, how would you begin? Would you introduce the story of Christ as something that could be memorized and passed on? Would you introduce questions of personal behavior and identity? Could robots even understand such a thing? In this engaging talk, Dr. Kirsten Sanders will speak to Theology on Tap on how the story of Christ’s two natures, given in the Chalcedonian definition, helps us to engage questions about artificial intelligence and human existence in the modern world.
Dr. Kirsten Sanders is a systematic theologian whose work has been featured in various publications including Christianity Today, The Hedgehog Review, Comment, Plough, and Mere Orthodoxy. She is the founder and director of Kinisi Theology Collective, a public theology project that aims to bridge the gap between traditional seminary education and the local church.
7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 17
Silvertone Bar & Grill
The Chez Freddie Room
69 Bromfield St, Boston 02108
Join us for Evening Prayer before the talk at 5:30 p.m.
The Church of the Advent
30 Brimmer Street, Boston 02108
FaithTech Boston
Vision: meeting other believers passionate about technology in Boston and exploring the potential of building a regular FaithTech Boston community.
Agenda:
- Eat Dinner Together
- Learn – what is FaithTech? Presented by Founder James Kelly
- Meet one and pray together
- Discover what it could look like to do this more often 🙂
Boston’s Christians Use Technology For World Missions
This week, we’re privileged to have a guest blogger, Ken Arnold. Ken is studying at Harvard and the founding director of a new ministry that brings together tech and missions-minded leaders in Boston. It’s exciting to see how influential technology can be in impacting the nations!
— Hackathon participant
On November 4-6, 2016, 1,426 technologists, developers, designers and mission workers in 28 cities and 16 nations around the world came together to build technology to support Christian missions, as part of an event called Indigitous #Hack. At our city’s event, 40 people gathered at the MIT Media Lab and formed six project teams to work on challenges posed by missions agencies. Projects included investigating the causes and consequences of youth sexting, configuring a portable router to distribute the Bible and other literature in remote areas, prototyping an app to connect people for spiritual mentoring, facilitating connections between Christians in Metro Boston, assisting people in searching for job opportunities abroad, and developing an information management system for a network of orphanages in Southeast Asia.
We worked late into the night. We worshipped and prayed together. We connected with cities around the world. Some of the things we built may already be in use in the mission field, while others explored an idea that may come to fruition years down the road. But the biggest impact was on our community. Nearly every Boston participant said the best part of the event was connecting with other believers and working with them towards God’s mission:
- [The best part was] “Meeting friends, coding globally, dreaming about what missions will look like in the next ten years”
- [It was] “fun to see other Christians come out of the woodwork, especially in a faith-hostile place like Boston where we are all hidden.”
- “I’d never heard of any event like this that brought together technology and digitally minded Christians.”
What’s next?
- Let’s do it again this year! This event was possible because of the passionate work of a diverse planning team. Want to be part of it? Let me know: kenneth.arnold@gmail.com.
- Let’s connect ministry and tech. We’re building a broader community, starting off with a kickoff event one evening in April or May. Details coming soon, sign up for updates or just email me.
- Share your challenges. What inspires you? What would you like to work on?
For those in other fields of work, what would it look like to gather people together to think about using their work and skills for the Gospel?
Come and join us as we dream with God about changing the world through innovative technology!