I’ll be direct: I spent years with serious misgivings about artificial intelligence. As a voice actor and audiobook narrator I have firsthand knowledge of the damage AI has caused in those industries. No abstraction here; my misgivings were based in real, tangible, negative experiences.

But the scale of what needed doing — potentially thousands of books, with who knows how many readers waiting. I wanted our efforts to be distinctly human. I also believed that distinctly human effort was going to require powerful tools. The question was not whether to use AI, but how? Our answer was temperance.

As I pondered, wrestled, and prayed about this, my friend Ryan Kaufman came to mind. Ryan is a mature Christian, a language scholar with an MDiv from Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte), and a technological savant whose misgivings about AI mirror my own, but are more informed, as he understands things from a technological viewpoint.

So I approached Ryan with the concept of Puritan Publishing, told him about my idea to modernize old Christian books currently in the public domain, gave him an idea of the scale, and asked him if he’d like to join me. By God’s grace, he said yes.

Together we wrestled through the ethics of using AI as a tool in service of our human effort. We sought the counsel of several wise and trusted theologians and ethicists before deciding to move forward. They were very gracious, listened carefully, and offered wise counsel that was both confirming, challenging, and helped us to chart a course for moving forward.

Ryan then built something remarkable, a layered system that:

• Preserves the author’s original message, argument, and intent
• Protects the theological content from any AI influence or alteration
• Makes the tone understandable and relatable to today’s reader
• Replaces archaic language with modern equivalents
• Every modernized text is then carefully edited and compared side-by-side with the original by human eyes — line by line, passage by passage — before publication.

If you are an AI skeptic: we honor that. We will provide you one free sample of a chapter from the title of your choosing if you contact us.

Edited by humans. The theology is the author’s own.