The Workshop was added to the household in the seventh generation as a small brick-floored outbuilding attached to the kitchen through a covered walkway. It was originally a wood-and-metal workshop for family repairs. The writing desk was added by the eighth generation.
AI has a seat at this desk — but only as a workshop tool. The card-catalogue drawer beside the laptop bears the household’s single brass-labelled rule: ‘AI · a workshop tool · never the master.’ The three questions painted on the wall guide every use.
The Foundations series and the Sunday letter are drafted here, always reviewed under Scripture in the Library before they leave the house.
“Technology serves wisdom here. I am not afraid of AI in this house. I am not sold AI in this house either.”
A prompt for the household
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Proverbs 3:5–6 · KJV
Before you leave the Workshop today, close every screen for one minute. Not to be virtuous, not to make a point. Only to remember that the Workshop’s most important tool is your own attention, and it belongs to the Lord first, and to the task second.
Family and community
The Workshop is where the household teaches the next generation what technology is for. When a teenager asks why we say AI is a servant and never the master, answer plainly: because a servant is measured by whether it makes the household more faithful, not more efficient. When a friend asks whether it is safe to use these tools at all, walk them to the AI Ethics room, sit with them, and read the disclaimer together.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
James 1:5 · KJV