How the AI here works

What the AI will do

When you ask a question, the assistant searches the commentary of eight named teachers: Chrysostom, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas (Catena Aurea), Calvin, Matthew Henry, John Gill, Adam Clarke, and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown. It quotes and summarizes what they wrote, with a citation after every claim. You can tap any citation and read the original passage yourself.

What the AI will never do

• It will never interpret Scripture on its own authority. Every theological statement it makes belongs to a named teacher, and the citation proves it.
• It will never tell you which tradition is right. The voices are labeled and kept side by side. Weighing them is your work, not the app's.
• It will never pray for you, speak as God, or act as your pastor. There are people in your life for that. This is a study tool.
• It will never make something up to avoid silence. When the teachers don't address your question, it says exactly that: “The provided sources don't address this.” We consider that refusal a feature.

Where the words come from

Every commentary on this site is public domain, drawn from translations published between 1845 and 1889 (and originals from the 4th century onward). The assistant's answers are assembled only from this library. It has no access to the open internet, to modern commentary, or to anyone's opinions, including its own.

Your writing is yours

Journal entries and reflections are private to your account, protected at the database level. Nothing you write is ever used to train anything or shown to anyone else.

There is one place the assistant reads what you wrote, and it only happens when you ask. On the Examen page you can ask for a look-back over one week. Asking sends that week's entries to the assistant, which quotes them back to you with the day and passage attached to each line. It happens then and at no other time. The look-back is saved to your account like anything else you write, and it is still never used to train anything.

No engagement tricks

No streaks, no badges, no guilt screens, no notifications designed to pull you back. If this app helps you, we want it to be because you met the text and the teachers, and kept coming back on your own.

The one thing here that looks back over time is the examen, and it measures nothing. It reads what you wrote and quotes it. There is no tally of days to keep or break, and it never says a word about how often you showed up.

Why these translations?

You can read every book here in KJV, WEB, or BSB. All three are public domain. That's a conviction and a plain fact about money. We believe Scripture should be free to read and free to check, and we can't afford anything else yet.

A translation like the NIV costs a licensing fee. This app doesn't have that money right now. If it ever earns enough to pay for one fairly, we will add it.

Until then, every word on this site can be checked by anyone, free, against the original public source. Nothing here is hidden behind a license you can't look up yourself.