{"id":218137,"date":"2026-05-21T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/christians-are-turning-to-artificial-intelligence-for-spiritual-guidance-survey-finds-michael-foust\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:55:00","slug":"christians-are-turning-to-artificial-intelligence-for-spiritual-guidance-survey-finds-michael-foust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/christians-are-turning-to-artificial-intelligence-for-spiritual-guidance-survey-finds-michael-foust\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians Are Turning to Artificial Intelligence for Spiritual Guidance, Survey Finds &#8211; Michael Foust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/headlines\/contributors\/michael-foust\/christians-are-turning-to-artificial-intelligence-for-spiritual-guidance-survey-finds.html\">Christians Are Turning to Artificial Intelligence for Spiritual Guidance, Survey Finds &#8211; Michael Foust<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/headlines\/contributors\/michael-foust\/christians-are-turning-to-artificial-intelligence-for-spiritual-guidance-survey-finds.html\">https:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/headlines\/contributors\/michael-foust\/christians-are-turning-to-artificial-intelligence-for-spiritual-guidance-survey-finds.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 13:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.crosswalk.com\">www.crosswalk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Survey findings show a significant number of practicing Christians trust artificial intelligence (AI) for various aspects of life including spirituality, financial stability, and mental wellbeing.<\/li>\n<li>Christians are particularly open to AI advice in areas like finding purpose, spiritual growth, and achieving financial stability, with a majority (over 60%) willing to seek AI for financial guidance.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the high level of trust in AI, a large proportion of Christians express concerns about AI&#8217;s potential impact on religion, including misrepresentation of Scripture, replacing God, or undermining spiritual leaders.<\/li>\n<li>There is a notable contrast in belief: a portion of Christians, especially Gen Z and Millennials, consider AI&#8217;s spiritual advice equally trustworthy as that from a pastor, although there is simultaneously widespread skepticism about AI\u2019s appropriateness in spiritual matters.<\/li>\n<li>The survey highlights the complex feelings Christians have towards AI, reflecting both openness to its use and apprehensions regarding its implications for traditional faith roles and practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians Are Turning to Artificial Intelligence for Spiritual Guidance, Survey Finds &#8211; Michael Foust https:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/headlines\/contributors\/michael-foust\/christians-are-turning-to-artificial-intelligence-for-spiritual-guidance-survey-finds.html&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}