2025 Faculty Workshop | The Challenges and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence
NWC Subscriptions
For continued information regarding changes in AI, DeWitt Library has subscriptions to the following:
A variety of print journals are found in the stacks near the computer bank on the first floor.
The Atlantic
The Christian Century
- The September 2025 issue covers the topic, "Can AI do ministry?"
Christianity Today
Outreach & Engagement Librarian
2025 Faculty Workshop
On August 21, Dr. Derek Schuurman led faculty in a day of learning about Artificial Intelligence and Christian Higher Education. During his presentations, he highlighted numerous books and articles. This library guide will will help the NWC community find material referenced in his presentation.
The majority of books are on display in our new reading nook.
Published articles:
- Schuurman, D. (2025, June 27). Artificial intelligence and grief. University Faculty Publications and Creative Works, 958.
- Schuurman, D. (2024, November 5). The problem with AI is deeper than you think. Relevant.
- Schuurman, D. (2024). Personhood and the perception of truth in the age of AI. University Faculty Publications and Creative Works, 808.
- Schuurman, D. (2023, January 20). ChatGPT and the rise of AI. Christian Scholar's Review.
- Schuurman, D. (2019). Artificial intelligence: Discerning a Christian response. University Faculty Publications and Creative Works, 765.
- Schuurman, D. (2018, September 25). Steering a course for artificial intelligence. The Banner.
- Schuurman, D. (2017). Technology and the biblical story. Pro Rege, 46(1), 4–11.
Published books:
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A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers
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Call Number: BL265.T4 B78 2022 & eBookFor Christians passionate about developing technology, it's not always clear how their faith and work intersect. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God and our neighbors? -
Shaping a Digital World
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Call Number: BR115.C65 S38 2013As an electrical engineer, Derek Schuurman wondered, what do bits and bytes have to do with Christian beliefs?
Andy Crouch
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Culture Making
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Call Number: BR115.C8 C77 2023The only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. -
The Life We're Looking For
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Call Number: HM756 .C75 2022. Our greatest need is to be recognized-to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with those around us. But for the last century, we've displaced that need with the ease of technology. -
Playing God
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Call Number: BT738.25 .C77 2013Andy Crouch unpacks the dynamics of power that either can make human flourishing possible or can destroy the image of God in people.
Other Books and Articles
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The Singularity Is Near
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Call Number: Interlibrary loanA controversial scientific vision predicts a time in which humans and machines will merge and create a new form of non-biological intelligence, explaining how the occurrence will solve such issues as pollution, hunger, and aging. -
The Singularity Is Nearer
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Call Number: Interlibrary LoanIn this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity-assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential.
Andreessen, M. (2023, June 6). Why AI will save the world. Andreessen Horowitz.
Arnold, K.C., Volzer, A. M., & Madrid, N.G. (2021). Generative models can help writers without writing for them. Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops (April 13-17, 2021, College Station, USA).
Bogost, I. (2025, August 17). College students have already changed forever. The Atlantic.
Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26 (2), 38.
Kingsnorth, P. (Nov/Dec, 2023). AI demonic: A spiritual exploration of AI. Touchstone.
Mims, C. (2023, May 13). Help! my political beliefs were altered by a chatbot! The Wall Street Journal.
Rose, K. (2023, May 30). A.I. poses ‘risk of extinction,’ industry leaders warn. The New York Times.
Wang, R. E., Ribeiro, A. T., Robinson, C. D., Loeb, S., & Demszky, D. (2024). Tutor copilot: A human-ai approach for scaling real-time expertise. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.03017.
Other Books
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After Virtue
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Call Number: BJ1012 .M325 1984Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of justice. -
Automating Inequality
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Call Number: On OrderEubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on economic inequality and democracy in America. -
Co-Intelligence
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Call Number: QA76.76.E95 M655 2024From Wharton professor, AI expert, and author of the One Useful Thing newsletter, a clear-eyed, pragmatic, and revelatory vision of our new age of generative AI. -
Computer Power and Human Reason
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Call Number: QA76 .W44Monograph on computer science and the social role of computers in human society - considers ethics questions and philosophical questions posed by increasingly powerful computers. -
Creation Regained
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Call Number: BS651 .W65 2005Albert Wolters's classic formulation of an integrated Christian worldview has been revised and expanded to reach new readers beyond the generation that has already benefited from this clear, concise proposal for transcending the false dichotomy between sacred and secular. -
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
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Call Number: On orderIn 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. -
Reformed Dogmatics
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Call Number: BX9474.3 .B38 2003This 4 volume work will appeal not only to scholars, students, pastors, and laity interested in Reformed theology but also to research and theological libraries. -
Technopoly
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Call Number: T14.5 .P667 1992Postman launches a trenchant and harrowing warning against the tyranny of machines over man in the late twentieth century. -
That Hideous Strength
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Call Number: PR6023.E926 T47 1996The last book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy is a breakneck journey of suspense in which Dr. Ransom must choose sides in a battle between science and ethics. -
Weapons of Math Destruction
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Call Number: QA76.9.B45 O64 2016We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives (where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance) are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this book, the opposite is true.
Sherry Turkle
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Alone Together
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Call Number: HM851 .T86 2017MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families. -
The Empathy Diaries
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Call Number: BF109.T86 A3 2021Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. -
Falling for Science
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Call Number: eBookPassion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific imaginations. -
The Inner History of Devices
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Call Number: eBookShe brings together three traditions of listening--that of the memoirist, the clinician, and the ethnographer. Each informs the others to compose an inner history of devices. -
Life on the Screen
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Call Number: QA76.9.C66 T87 1995A book about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. -
Reclaiming Conversation
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Call Number: P96.T42 T85 2015 (Main)Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human--and humanizing--thing that we do. -
The Second Self
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Call Number: QA76 .T85 2005 (Main) & eBookSherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world.
