Faith Focused Tech helps churches, ministries and faith-based organizations decide which digital and AI tools belong in their work, and how to use them without losing sight of what they believe.
Most organizations adopt a tool first and ask what it means later. By then the chatbot is answering prayer requests, the volunteer roster lives in someone's personal account, and no one can say whether any of it reflects what the community believes. Our work starts the other way around: with your convictions, your people and your mission, and only then with the technology.
For nearly three decades, the Faith Focused Tech team have studied how religious communities negotiate digital media and helped groups build tools. Their consulting brings that research to the decisions in front of your leadership team this year.
Each engagement is shaped around your tradition and your people. Most begin with a values assessment, because every later decision gets easier once your convictions are written down.
A structured look at the convictions that actually shape your decisions, drawn from leadership, staff and members. Where stated beliefs and daily practice have drifted apart, you'll see it plainly.
You leave with a written values framework your team can test any tool or practice against.
A review of the platforms, apps and accounts already in use, read in light of your mission to determine: what serves you, what quietly works against you, and what to retire.
You leave with a prioritized list of keeps, fixes and replacements.
Practical counsel on when, where and how to bring AI and digital tools into ministry and work: which pilots are worth running, which guardrails to set first, and how to bring hesitant people along.
You leave with a phased adoption plan your staff can follow.
Facilitated sessions for leadership teams on what your tradition teaches about authority, community, embodiment and truth, and what that means for screens, streams and software.
You leave with shared language for the decisions ahead, agreed by the people who will make them.
A formal policy your board can adopt, or informal guidelines for staff: sensitive data, human-only ministry, disclosure, approved tools and a review rhythm. Barna found that 79% of U.S. Protestant pastors say their church has no AI guidance at all. We work with your leadership team to draft your policy, deciding where AI fits and where it doesn't. Start with the free generator, then refine the draft with our team.
You leave with an adopted policy, a staff quick guide and a review calendar.
Keynotes, retreats and staff trainings on digital religion, AI and faith, online ministry, and/or tech & ethics, tailored for clergy, lay leaders, educators or students.
You leave with a team that can talk about technology with confidence instead of anxiety.
Four movements, in order. Smaller engagements may move through them in a single retreat day; larger ones over a season.
Conversations with leaders and staff, a short survey of your community, and an inventory of every tool and account already in use. Nothing is assumed.
Together we put words to the convictions that should govern your technology: what your tradition says about authority, community, embodiment and care for the vulnerable.
Each tool and practice is read against those convictions. You get an understanding account of what fits, what needs guardrails, and what should be avoided or replaced.
The decisions become something your organization can keep: a written AI policy, training for staff and volunteers, and a rhythm for review as the technology changes.
Professor of Communication, Texas A&M University
Founding Director, Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies
Former President, International Society of Media, Religion & Culture
Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University, and Founding Director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies. She has studied religion and the internet since 1997, and her research on how Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities negotiate new media helped establish Digital Religion Studies as a new field of study.
She is the author of more than 125 articles and 17 books. Her recent work on artificial intelligence asks how religious communities can engage AI on their own terms: carefully, critically, and without letting it replace the shared life at the heart of faith.
Her consulting takes her current research out of the lecture hall and into spaces where practical decisions need to be made by congregations, denominations, seminaries and faith-based organizations right now.
Seventeen books and more than 125 articles on religion, media and technology. The most recent, God & Technology (2025), traces how centuries-old ideas about the near-religious power of technology still shape the way people imagine AI.
Twelve questions that help congregations reflect on their technology needs, as well as the convictions behind your choices, what stays human, what never goes into an AI tool, what you tell people, and who keeps it current.
Want the reasoning behind each part? Heidi’s handbook, Crafting a Faithful AI Policy, explains it.
Troy Shepherd, with three decades as a tech founder and designer, helps ministries and mission-driven organizations brainstorm and build custom software: small, focused tools shaped around the values Heidi helps you name.
Meet TroyTell us a little about your organization and what you're weighing. A first conversation is the easiest way to see whether an assessment, a workshop or a policy review is the right place to begin.