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Episode 829: The Race To Replace Humans Is Already On: Will Jones’ Fight To Ban Superintelligent AI and What Most Leaders Have No Idea Is Coming

Carey Nieuwhof — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: The AI Frontier labs are building AI to do what YOU do, only faster and cheaper. And most leaders have no idea what’s coming. Will Jones of the Future of Life Institute says this is the part nobody tells you: the more you lean on it to keep […]

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Episode 828: The Giving Disruption Coming for the Church: Pat Gelsinger on AI and Mental Health

Carey Nieuwhof — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Former Intel and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger talks about what AI is doing to us. He unpacks the mental health toll of social media (and what’s coming next), the job loss scenarios leaders aren’t ready for, how AI will reshape giving in the church, and why engaging high-net-worth […]

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Episode 827: AI Series – The Questions About AI Leaders Never Ask: AI Girlfriends, Truth and Deepfakes, and Best and Worst Case Scenarios

Carey Nieuwhof — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: You use AI. Have you thought about what it’s doing to your church, the people you’re reaching, or your soul? James (JP) Poulter flips the mic to interview Carey! They discuss AI girlfriends, deepfakes, and the best and worst case scenarios nobody’s naming. There’s a shift happening in […]

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Episode 826: How to Preach Through Controversial Topics: Charlie Dates on What White Preachers and Black Preachers Can Learn From Each Other and Preaching So a Dead Room Wakes Up

Carey Nieuwhof — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Charlie Dates started preaching at eight, lining up chairs in his living room. Now he’s one of Chicago’s most respected pastors. He joins Carey to talk about whose approval you’re really preaching for, why a major donor once walked out mad, how to wake up a dead congregation, […]

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Turn Your Church Data Into Deeper Discipleship

Carey Nieuwhof — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:01:00 +0000

This post is in partnership with Subsplash, written by Jeff Harvey, Senior Content Manager. Subsplash is one platform that does it all—build your church community with the only platform made for discipleship. There’s a pastor I know here in north Austin, Texas who can tell you exactly how many people walked through his church’s doors […]

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Episode 825: What Destroys Leaders: Eric Geiger on Preaching to Your Own Sins and On Disappointing Your Staff

Carey Nieuwhof — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Eric Geiger, senior pastor of Mariners Church, joins Carey to talk about what actually brings leaders down, the personal and systemic reasons for moral failure, why a lot of us end up preaching to our own sin, and how to disappoint your staff you used to work directly […]

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Episode 824: A $37 Million Building Campaign with a Church of 900 People: Aaron Graham on Big Vision and The Key to Talking About Hot Button Topics

Carey Nieuwhof — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Aaron Graham is leading a $37 million building campaign with 900 people and explains exactly how to inspire people to give to something much bigger than themselves. We also cover what it’s like to be held hostage by an enemy army at ten years old, how to unite […]

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The Hidden Way AI Is About to Test Every Pastor’s Soul

Carey Nieuwhof — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0000

A core human problem since Adam and Eve strolled through the garden—and a snake grabbed Eve’s attention—is what to do with the knowledge we received when the first humans bit into an apple. The tree at the center of the garden of Eden is one we’ve come to call the Tree of the Knowledge of […]

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Episode 823: Winning Back Lost Customers: Will Guidara on Customer Service Pet Peeves, What Simon Sinek Taught Him About Speaking, and Whether AI Will Harm (or Help) Hospitality

Carey Nieuwhof — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Every leader loses customers. Few know how to win them back. Will Guidara, the restaurateur behind Eleven Madison Park and author of Unreasonable Hospitality, joins Carey to talk about taking the anxiety out of service, the customer-service pet peeves that drive him crazy, what AI is actually doing […]

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Episode 822: Seven Signs AI Wrote Your Sermon, Finding and Developing Your Preaching Voice, and A New Study on AI’s Impact on the Brain That Should Scare Every Pastor

Carey Nieuwhof — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Should you use AI to write your sermon? Maybe not. Three years after ChatGPT, we don’t just sound the same. We’re starting to think the same, or not think at all. Enter brain rot. Carey walks through seven tells that give away AI writing, shows you how to […]

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AI is Trying to Erase Death. Toward a Christian Response.

Carey Nieuwhof — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0000

For all of human history, death has been final. AI is about to make it feel optional. And if that’s the case, what does that do to sound theology, your church, and your congregation? Let me explain. Mom’s Dead, But Hang On, Let Me Talk To Her In November 2025, an actor named Calum Worthy […]

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Episode 821: Finding Your Voice as a Young Preacher: Tyler Staton on the Gift of Imagination and What Getting Sick Taught Him About Pace

Carey Nieuwhof — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Most young leaders try to sound like someone else long before they sound like themselves. Tyler Staton, lead pastor at Bridgetown Church, talks about finding your voice as a preacher and writer, what a season of sickness taught him about pace, why addiction thrives when you’re moving too […]

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