# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AI, Theology and the Black Church
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 26 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am – Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Explore AI ethics and digital discipleship shaping formation, leadership, and ministry with Dr. Justin Lester & Ray Rouson.About this EventThis intensive course explores the theological, ethical, and practical implications of artificial intelligence and digital innovation within the life of the Black Church. Grounded in Black theology, ecclesiology, and cultural analysis, the course examines how emerging technologies—particularly artificial intelligence, play, gamification, and digital socialization—are reshaping formation, leadership, community, and ministry practice.Dr. Justin Lester (That Tech Pastor) leads students in critically engaging artificial intelligence as a theological and ethical force in contemporary ministry. Through interdisciplinary inquiry, students assess how AI and digital systems influence identity, belonging, power, and participation in faith communities, with particular attention to ethical discernment, human dignity, and communal flourishing.Ray Rouson (Your Digital Executive Pastor) focuses on digital discipleship, guiding students in the design and implementation of discipleship models that move beyond streaming toward intentional, measurable, and relational spiritual formation in digital and hybrid spaces. Drawing from pastoral practice, digital ministry systems, and contemporary research, students explore how the Black Church can cultivate authentic discipleship, care, and leadership development in an online world.Together, the course equips students to think theologically, lead ethically, and innovate faithfully developing AI-informed and digitally integrated ministry strategies that honor the historic witness of the Black Church while engaging the realities of a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/richmond/ai-theology-and-the-black-church/100001979537578184
- **Event Categories**: workshops, artificial-intelligence, art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 350, max: 350, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Richmond
- **state**: VA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1500 N Lombardy St
- **lat**: 37.5599032
- **long**: -77.4518215
- **full address**: 1500 N Lombardy St, 1500 North Lombardy Street, Richmond, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 10
- **organizer**: Samuel  DeWitt Proctor School of Theology (https://allevents.in/org/samuel-dewitt-proctor-school-of-theology/19534633)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 26 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1500 N Lombardy St, 1500 North Lombardy Street, Richmond, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 350 up to 350 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Samuel  DeWitt Proctor School of Theology
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, artificial-intelligence, art, fine-arts
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about AI, Theology and the Black Church ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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