Coming in early 2027!
God, AI & the Mind
Whose Problem Is It?
For therapists, ministers, and educators facing a technology that arrived before anyone asked whether they were ready.
Artificial intelligence is already in the counseling office and the pastor’s study: clients arrive with chatbot transcripts, and institutions adopt tools faster than anyone can evaluate them. God, AI & the Mind brings theology, psychology, and technology into the same room and asks who is responsible for what happens next—especially when those tools fail the people most at risk. It gives therapists, ministers, and educators a way to decide what to use, what to refuse, and how to keep the work of care from being handed over by default.
About Kathy J. Hoppe
I've spent my career where mental health and ministry meet: in private practice and group settings, hospitals and hospices, employee assistance programs, and classrooms at seven universities. I'm a licensed marital and family therapist, a minister, and I chair the Behavioral Sciences Department at Oral Roberts University.
This is my fourteenth book and my fourth with an academic press. My other books include Trauma and Crisis Counseling: An Overview for Emerging Professionals, Drowning for Jesus, and Discovery Teaching Like Jesus. The thread running through all of them is the same question: what it costs to care for people well, and how to keep doing it without being destroyed by it.
In 2026, The Journal Record named me a Woman of the Year honoree, and I received the Heart of Hope Award from the Scraper Counseling Center at Mid-America Christian University. In 2022, The Journal Record recognized me as an Oklahoma Health Care Hero.
I was featured in Beth Allison Barr’s book, Becoming the Pastor’s Wife, a New York Times bestseller, and in her limited-series podcast, All the Buried Women [Episode 2: The Invisible Woman].
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