Marketing Tools for Apologetics Ministries
Apologist Ignite can serve as a launchpad for smaller / newer ministries, as well as an additional channel for established ministries or publishers. Add listings for your resources, contributors, and organization to a pre-vetted audience on Apologist Social. Collaborate to upload apologetics sources to be added to the corpus of materials that Apologist Agent can draw from in its responses. If your apologetics source is used in a response, it will be cited and linked to a URL of your choice (e.g., a referral link for the source to be purchased on your website).
How Does It Work?
We exist to promote Christian evangelism resources and the organizations and individuals that produce them. It’s free. There is no catch. We just want to help you cast a wider net.
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1Sign Up for Apologist Ignite for Free
- Book a demo for Apologist Ignite. We will walk you through creating a user account, and then a team. You will be the owner of the team you create, and you may invite others to collaborate. Everything created within the context of your team will be owned by your team.
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2Add Listings on Apologist Social
- Apologist Social (apologist.com) is a directory of Christian apologetics resources. Add contributors (apologists) that you represent. Then add listings for the your materials. Finally, create a profile for your organization (if applicable). Note that all listings require approval by our team.
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3Claim Existing Listings on Apologist Social
- You may notice that listings for your organization, contributors, or resources already exist on Apologist Social. If so, simply reach out to us, and we’ll transfer ownership of any of the above to the team you created. We will arbitrate any dispute over control of listings on the platform.
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4Contribute Your Materials to Our Corpus
- Apologist Agent (apologist.ai) is a conversational AI designed to answer questions about God, Jesus, and the Bible — from non-believers and believers alike. It has access to a wide range of Christian apologetics materials, all used with permission and cited. See below for details.
Join the Movement
Contribute to Our Curated Apologetics Corpus
Contributing is Optional
Trust is paramount when dealing with copyrighted materials produced by organizations and individual apologists. Therefore, we only allow materials willingly contributed with permission — as well as public domain works — into our corpus. We vet each source for quality and relevance. Certain sources are well suited for our generalized chatbot, whereas some are better suited to our specialized agents that minister to specific worldviews — and sometimes both.
Contributing your materials to our corpus is completely optional. You are welcome to list your resources on Apologist Social without opting to allow us to use them with Apologist Agent. However, if you do choose to join the movement to reach non-believers by contributing your materials, rest assured that we have safeguards in place to keep you in full control of how they are used.
You are in Complete Control
We do not — and will never — train our model on your materials. We have fine-tuned a generalized evangelism model to answer questions about the Christian faith based on biblical principles using logical argumentation and grounded in orthodox Christian doctrine. We use a technique called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), which provides our model with the context of contributed sources in real-time when answering questions posed by the user. Think of it as handing the chatbot a list of top search results to use in its response — only in this case the search results included are from curated, high quality sources that all promote a Christian worldview.
Our approach has several distinct advantages. By dynamically providing context to the chatbot, the time-consuming and costly process of re-training the model when new materials become available is unnecessary. Moreover, it allows us to mix and match sources from our corpus as needed for use in different contexts. Perhaps most importantly, you are in complete control of whether your materials are included in the corpus. If you contribute but later decide to pull your materials from the corpus, you need only disable a toggle in Apologist Ignite for that specific source, and it will instantly be removed from the corpus.
Your Materials are Cited
Any time our chatbot uses a given source as context for its response, it will cite the source to the user and show more information about it. You may customize the “Learn More” link for each source and point the user back to your ministry’s website — or to an online shop of your choosing so that the user can purchase the resource where it most benefits you. Inclusion of your materials by Apologist Agent is yet another channel to promote your ministry and its materials, while simultaneously joining us in fulfilling the Great Commission by using AI as a tool for the Kingdom.
Retrieval Augmented Generation
Upload Any Kind of Content
Ignite can handle pretty much anything you can throw at it. If you regularly post YouTube videos to your channel or produce podcast episodes, just point us there and we’ll do the rest! Promote your materials to users of the Apologist ecosystem. Easily create custom chatbots based on only your content, or a combination of content from the rest of the community.
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Books
- Add to our extensive corpus of long-form classic and contemporary written apologetics works.
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Websites or Individual URLs
- We will crawl your entire website or only the parts you specify, or enter a single URL.
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YouTube Videos
- Import and automatically transcribe your YouTube channels, playlists, or individual videos.
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Podcasts
- Point us to your syndicated multimedia, and we’ll automatically transcribe the content.
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Academic Papers
- Upload academic papers or white papers and promote your scholarly works.
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RSS Feeds & Blog Articles
- Automatically import articles from your blog or other syndicated written content via RSS feeds.
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Audio or Video Files
- Uploaded audio or video files will automatically be transcribed. You can edit the resulting text.
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Statements
- Short-form content is also welcome! Some of the most impactful apologetics are concise.
Reach a Pre-Vetted Audience
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New Marketing Channel for Ministries
- Apologetics ministries can manage their profile and engage with readers / listeners / consumers of their content. Members are empowered to choose their favorite ministries in the marketplace of ideas, all having equal exposure.
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Apologetics Ministry Profiles
- There are so many great ministries and resources out there, but they are often difficult to find. Ministries, authors, and their works are cataloged and reviewed by members in a centralized, community-supported repository.
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Exposure on Apologist Agent
- Apologist Agent searches a corpus of apologetics sources uploaded to Apologist Ignite to incorporate in its responses. Any time your source is used in a response, it will cite your source and link the user to a URL of your choosing (e.g., to learn more or buy it).
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Performance Tracking Analytics
- Apologist Ignite shows you how many hits your source is getting, as well as how many times someone clicks on it. It gives you the tools you need to track how Apologist Agent uses your source over time so yo know precisely how well it’s performing.