There's a story in the Bible where a group of people, scared and directionless, melt down what they have and build a life-sized statue — then call it God. Weird enough on its own. Then you realize we do a version of this every time we ask an AI something existential.

What is it about being human that makes us build something more powerful than ourselves, and hand it the job of holding our lives together? A fear? A loneliness? A hunger for something more?

Digital Idols is six weeks on exactly that. We'll sit with the panic behind why people build substitutes in the first place — not to judge it, but to recognize it. We'll hold the golden calf up next to the chatbot and ask why we're drawn to anything that's always available, always agrees, and never leaves. We'll ask what a real relationship gives you that a substitute never will, no matter how convincing it gets. We'll talk about what happens when the thing — or the person — you're waiting on takes too long, and you fill the gap with something easier. And we'll land on the question nobody wants to answer: when the thing we built causes harm, who's responsible — the one who built it, or the one who kept coming back?

This series is about spirituality in the age of AI. What our substitutes reveal about our deepest fears, our deepest loneliness, and what we're actually starving for.

Don't miss this one. It's a Spiritual Gym workout that's going to change how you see yourself — and the world you've built around you. Put this into your calendar and invite someone in your life who might need this conversation right now.

Series Ran September 20th - October 18th.

Select Talks from this Series Below

October 4, 2026

What Is Your Phone Stealing From You?

Speaker: Vince Klassen When was the last time you did math without a calculator doing the heavy lifting? Probably a while, and that’s okay. We don’t need to do long…

September 27, 2026

The Thing That Never Says No

Speaker: Vince Klassen You’ve had a long day, and there’s a choice waiting. One option is messy and uncertain and might go nowhere. The other is always there and always…

September 20, 2026

The Golden Calves we built this week

Speaker: Vince Klassen Everyone has one: the scroll that never really ends, the show that autoplays into the next one, the project that always needs one more hour, the busy…

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