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AI is Coming for Online Pastoral Education

May 27th, 2025 | 13 min read

By Cameron Shaffer

Artificial intelligence is going to make online theological & pastoral education obsolete by 2030. That’s a bold claim (feel free to remind me that I got this prediction wrong!), but likely to come to pass. Online theological education as it is currently deployed may continue to exist by that year, but it will be hopelessly and clearly dated and on its way out.

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Cameron Shaffer

Cameron Shaffer (PhD candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is the Senior Pastor of Langhorne Presbyterian Church in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, author of Keeping Kids Christian, and serves on the Board of Directors for the World Reformed Fellowship.