A Free Church App for Cameroon: French, MTN MoMo Giving and Free Bibles
What SoapBox can do for a church in Cameroon today: MTN MoMo giving to your own merchant code, the app in French or English, and free French Bibles.
Alan Safahi · 5 min read
A Free Church App for Argentina: Spanish, Free Bibles and ORA
What SoapBox can do for a church in Argentina today: the app in Spanish, free Spanish Bibles, and a home in People for members without a smartphone.
Alan Safahi · 5 min read
A Free Church App for Mexico: Spanish, Spanish Bibles and ORA
What SoapBox can do for a church in Mexico today: the app in Spanish, free Spanish Bibles, ORA as a study aid, and a place for members with a basic phone.
Alan Safahi · 5 min read
A Free Church App for Brazil: Portuguese, Free Bibles and ORA
What SoapBox can do for a church in Brazil today: the app in Portuguese, free Portuguese Bibles, ORA as a study aid, and a free start for up to a hundred members.
Alan Safahi · 5 min read
A Free Church App for Kenya: Swahili, M-Pesa Giving and Free Bibles
What SoapBox can do for a church in Kenya today: M-Pesa giving to your own Till Number, the app in Swahili or English, and free Swahili and Dholuo Bibles.
Alan Safahi · 5 min read
What to Do the Week After a Spiritual High
The drop after a retreat or a powerful service is normal. The week after the mountaintop is usually where the real thing starts.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Can AI Help You Memorize Scripture Without Replacing the Work?
AI can be a very good memorization coach. It can only help with the part of the work that was never the point.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Reading the Psalms When You Do Not Feel Any of It
The book was written largely by people who did not feel it either. How to read, and pray, when the words are there and the feeling is not.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
We Are Not Building a Chaplain
Why an AI chaplain is the one feature SoapBox will never ship, and what ORA is instead: a study aid for everyone, never a stand-in for a shepherd.
Alan Safahi · 5 min read
What a Scripture Citation Actually Proves When an AI Gives You One
A verse in parentheses is the moment most people stop checking. Here is what that reference does and does not establish, and the three questions that settle it in under a minute.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
How to Pray for Someone You Are Angry With (When You Do Not Want To)
Jesus told us to pray for the people who hurt us. He never said it would feel like anything. A practical road for the days it does not.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Your Members Are Already Asking AI Bible Questions. Here Is How to Guide Them
Nobody in your church waited for permission. The question is not whether they ask a machine about Scripture, but whether anyone has taught them how to check the answer.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
What the Persecuted Church Can Teach the Comfortable One
Believers who meet in secret are not a charity case for the rest of us. They are the ones with something to teach.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Can a Thinking Person Still Believe in Miracles?
The strongest objection, what the Gospels actually claim, and why the real question comes before the miracle.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Should Christians Be Afraid of AI? What the Latest Warnings Mean for Your Church
An AI researcher quit with a public warning. What is true in it, what it gets wrong, and what a church should actually do.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Burnout, Rest, and the God Who Said “Come to Me”
Exhaustion is not a faith problem to repent of. But it is a signal, and Scripture treats it far more gently than most of us do.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Is the Bible Reliable, or Was It Rewritten? How We Got the Text
The claim that Scripture was quietly edited by the powerful is confident, common, and unusually easy to check.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
The Quiet Grief No One Talks About — and Where Faith Meets It
Some losses never get a funeral, a casserole, or a day off work. That doesn't make them small — it just leaves you carrying them alone.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
What the Printing Press Teaches Us About AI and the Church
The church has already lived through a technology that made truth and error travel at the same speed. It did not go the way you would guess.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Journaling Your Faith: Why Writing It Down Changes You
You forget more of your spiritual life than you realize — the prayers, the answers, the quiet turning points. Writing it down is how you stop losing it.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Did the Resurrection Actually Happen? What the Evidence Shows
Christianity stakes everything on one claim that could be checked. Here's an honest look at the facts even skeptical historians grant — and what they add up to.
Alan Safahi · 8 min read
What to Do With Doubt Instead of Hiding It
Doubt handled in the open tends to mature. Doubt kept secret tends to harden.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Grounded vs. Ungrounded AI: The One Distinction That Protects Your Faith
Every AI answer about God is either retrieved or invented. Telling them apart is the whole skill.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
How to Actually Read the Bible in a Year (Without Quitting in February)
Most Bible-in-a-year plans don't fail because people lack discipline. They fail because the plan was designed for someone who never has a bad week. Here's how to build one that survives a real life.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Will AI Make Us Lonelier — or Can It Deepen Real Community?
The honest worry is that people will talk to a machine instead of to each other. Here's the distinction that decides which way it goes — and what a machine can never be for you.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Discipleship Between Sundays: The 6 Days That Shape the 1
For most of us the real spiritual life doesn't happen on Sunday morning — it happens in the ordinary hours nobody sees. Here's how to grow faith in the six days between, without adding one more thing to feel guilty about.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Should a Christian Trust AI With Theology? A Discernment Guide
AI will answer your hardest questions about God instantly and with total confidence. Here's how much of that confidence you should actually trust — and the old test that still works perfectly on a chatbot.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Best Church Management Software for Small Churches (2026)
You don’t have a big budget or a full-time admin — you have volunteers and a Sunday to get ready for. An honest look at what small churches actually need, and how to avoid overpaying for it.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Why Church Apps Fail (and How to Launch One That Doesn’t)
Most church apps are downloaded once and forgotten by spring. The reasons are predictable — and so is the fix. Here’s how to pick an app your congregation will actually open.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
How to Move Your Church From Planning Center (Step by Step)
Switching platforms sounds daunting, but the actual work is smaller than you think. The plain, practical path to move your people and giving off Planning Center.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
When Prayer Feels Like Talking to the Ceiling
Almost everyone who prays hits a stretch where it feels like no one is listening. That feeling isn’t a verdict on your faith — and the Bible takes it more seriously than most sermons do.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
AI “Hallucinated” a Bible Verse: Why That Should Change How You Study
Sooner or later a chatbot will hand you a verse that sounds perfect and doesn’t exist. Here’s why it happens, why it matters more in faith than anywhere else, and the ten-second habit that protects you.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
The Lost Art of Sabbath in an Always-On World
We've made rest a productivity hack and exhaustion a personality. The ancient practice of Sabbath offers something stranger and better: permission to stop.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Can AI Pray? What Machines Can and Can't Do with the Sacred
An AI can write a beautiful prayer in seconds — but is it praying? A clear-eyed look at what machines can do with the sacred, and the one thing they never will.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Can AI Help You Grow in Faith? An Honest Christian Guide to AI Bible Study
AI can answer a Bible question in seconds — but should you trust it with your spiritual life? What AI does well, where it fails, and how to use it without losing the plot.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Honest Questions: How Worldviews Answer the Things That Matter
Every worldview answers four questions — meaning, morality, suffering, and hope. A charitable look at how they differ, and what's distinctive about the Christian answers.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Faith Under Pressure: The Global Persecuted Church
For hundreds of millions, practicing faith is dangerous. A sober, sourced look at religious persecution today — and the resilience of belief under pressure.
Alan Safahi · 7 min read
Coming Home: Faith Journeys from a Muslim Background
Around the world, people raised in Muslim families are quietly encountering Jesus. A respectful look at what draws them — and the grace at the center of it.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
Is There Hope? The Christian Answer to Despair
If you're tired, anxious, or quietly wondering whether anything holds — this is the honest case for why Christians say there is real, durable hope.
Alan Safahi · 6 min read
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