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If all things work out for good, why do we see humans being tortured? — Question from Egypt

August 2025 Newsletter

Since we launched The Apologist Project, people in 130+ countries and 70+ languages have had conversations that point people to Jesus. Conversations like: To date the Apologist Project has powered: Quickly growing are the questions in Mandarin Chinese, which make up 43% of the total non-English prompts that have been typed into the Apologist Project. […]

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June 2025 Newsletter

“I am very disappointed and hurt. Does God still love me?” On April 29, 2025 someone in Egypt asked this question. With your prayers and support, our missional AI agents continue to provide faithful Christian answers to those seeking truth. Global Impact is Growing April marked a significant milestone for us as monthly usage reached […]

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Spring 2025 Conference Appearances

Missional.AI Conference: Jake got to do a short pitch of our platform at this year’s Missional AI conference. Missional AI is a global movement dedicated to exploring how artificial intelligence can revolutionize missional engagement. SXSW Sunday SVC: New Wine Skins: How Technology is Shaping the Church – The digital age is transforming the way people […]

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The Apologist Project Wins 1st Overall in Indigitous #HACK 2024

Following hot on the heels of our 2nd place in challenge win at Gloo’s AI & the Church hackathon, we have just won 1st place overall at the global Indigitous hackathon for our work on worldview-specific conversational AIs. Here is just a sampling of the amazing feedback we got from the judges: This project stood out […]

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Test Everything. Hold on to the Good.

At The Apologist Project, we’re continuing our mission of building out conversational AIs that address questions from seekers of specific worldviews. We’re currently working on a chatbot that addresses science-based questions from a biblical worldview. We’ve partnered with Reasons to Believe to allow the AI to draw on context from their online content. We’d love you to give […]

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Introducing Alim: a Muslim-Ministering Chatbot

Meet “Alim,” a worldview-specific chatbot that ministers to the Muslim community. Alim’s corpus includes apologetics materials from Muslim-serving ministries and apologists around the globe. Our partners in this endeavor include the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies, various contributors from the Answering Islam website, as well as other fruitful ministries around the world that we cannot mention due […]

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Introducing Apologist Social

We’re extremely excited to announce the beta launch of Apologist.com, a directory of Christian apologetics resources. With the introduction of Apologist.com, our Christian apologetics ecosystem now has all the major pieces in place; our platform provides a comprehensive solution for creators and consumers of Christian apologetics alike. The beta launch of Apologist Social includes over […]

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Apologist Agent & Apologist Beacon are Live!

Today we are pleased to announce the official launch of Apologist Agent and Apologist Beacon. Apologist Agent has come a long way since our beta was launched back in October 2023. Now backed by RAG sources uploaded via Apologist Ignite, Agent is smarter than ever. And we’re not done yet. We’ll be continually fine-tuning the […]

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Introducing Apologist Ignite

Today we’re announcing the public beta of Apologist Ignite. Apologist Ignite is a marketing platform made for apologetics ministries and publishers, as well as independent apologists. Our initial offering allows teams to collaborate on managing apologist profiles and upload sources authored by them. Those sources are then added to the corpus of materials that Apologist […]

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