What's Becoming of Us?: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Church

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Tim Dalrymple

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Timothy Dalrymple is a former national champion gymnast who turned to academia following an accident in college where he broke his neck. He’s studied at Stanford University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he made suffering a key theme of his research and teaching in modern Western religious thought.  

He was a key player in the launch of patheos.com, an online marketing place of religious ideas, and he pioneered many of the techniques that led Patheos to become the world’s largest platform for multi-religious conversations. In 2013, Dalrymple founded Polymath, a creative agency that services businesses and nonprofits serving the world.  

Dalrymple currently serves as Christianity Today’s President and CEO, the flagship evangelical media ministry founded in 1956 by Billy Graham.  

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