A LETTER TO THE HOUSEHOLD
On Using AI Quietly
"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."
— Proverbs 27:17 (KJV)
A spoken reading of this is being recorded — it will appear here soon.
Dear brother or sister in Christ,
Our household carries a name that startles some when they first hear it. CrossAIHub. The Cross we know — it is the sign under which Christians have lived and died and risen for two thousand years. The Hub we understand — a meeting place, a home for many parts. But the AI in the middle? That gives many Christians pause. We understand that pause. We share it.
We want to say plainly what we do and do not do with this technology.
We use AI as a kind of clerk and a kind of mirror. It helps us read and summarize. It helps us write drafts that we then rewrite by hand. It helps us check that our scripture references are correct. It helps us speak our own thoughts back to us, so we may consider them again. It does not preach to you. It does not pretend to speak as a pastor or a priest. It does not put words in the mouth of Christ. The voices that read scripture aloud in our episodes are synthesized voices, used to bring the words to you in a form that requires nothing of our own faces or names — a kind of veil for the messenger, so that the message may be the King.
What we do not do: we do not use AI to claim authority that is not ours. We do not generate fake visions or invented sayings of the saints. We do not write history that did not happen. We do not produce theology that has not been weighed against the Holy Scriptures and the witness of the Church through the centuries.
We are not a technology company. We are a Christian household that uses a tool. The Reformers used the printing press. The early Church used the codex. The medieval scribes used reed and ink. Every generation has had a way of carrying the gospel into the rooms where it would not otherwise have gone. This is ours.
If the tool ever begins to shape the message rather than carry it, we will set it down. The cross is the centre. The hub gathers many — including any who have been wary of AI, and who are reading this with cautious eyes. You are welcome here. Read what we offer, weigh it, and keep what is good.
We pray for you. We thank the Lord for the patience of those who read carefully and ask good questions of what they read.
May the Lord bless you with discernment and joy in equal measure.
A brother in Christ