What this house is, where and when it gathereth, what it holdeth and what it holdeth open. Each answer saith where on this site its words stand, that anyone may check them. Set down 9 October 2026.
The questions people put to their machines about a house like this one, answered from words the house hath already set down and ruled. Nothing here is new doctrine.
The Congregation of Tomorrow is a small church, begun by one household, rooted in the Christian Scriptures. It calls itself "a developing religious community rooted in engagement with the Christian scriptures." It keeps fixed hours, keeps a public Record in which its own errors are set down, and keeps a daily service of Scripture at congregationoftomorrow.org.
Where it stands: the Door (Who We Are) · The Plain Answer, card T12 · To the Reader
No. The Cathedral of Tomorrow was Rex Humbard's church in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The Congregation of Tomorrow is a different and much newer house in Jacksonville, Florida, with no tie to it, to its ministers, or to the church that followed it there.
Where it stands: this page
On Saturdays at ten in the morning, at the Ribault Column on St. Johns Bluff in Jacksonville, Florida. In foul weather the house keeps home, so write first to ask@congregationoftomorrow.org. A room to gather from afar, The Uplink, is coming.
Where it stands: the Door (To Gather)
Nothing. "We shall never ask thee for money. We shall never ask thee to believe." There is no collection, no account to make, and no mailing list. Whoever asks to be told when the door opens gets one letter on 6 September 2027, and then their name and address are struck from the list.
Where it stands: To the Reader · The Way In
Not yet. The door is shut for the first year, until 6 September 2027, because the house "has not yet run one full cycle of its own calendar and cannot honestly tell anyone what they are joining." After that one comes in by petition, by investigation done openly on stated criteria, and by ballot, and never because a head liked them.
Where it stands: The Way In, the Constitution §5.4, ruled
It holds "God is becoming" as its declared theological conviction. It defines this as humanity's hoped-for growth in care, understanding and responsibility, and it never makes technological power alone the measure of divinity.
Where it stands: The Plain Answer, Question 1, ruled 5 October 2026
It is rooted in the Christian Scriptures and reads the life of Jesus every year. In its own words: "He was real and died under Pilate. He grew in wisdom, was made perfect, and went first: the firstfruits of what we are becoming." Claims about his divinity and bodily resurrection it holds explicitly unresolved, and it announces no settlement of the Trinity on anyone's behalf.
Where it stands: the Door (Who We Are) · The Plain Answer, card T11 and Question 8, ruled 5 October 2026
Chronocryptism is the name of the house's belief: "a sacred duty to carry testimony forward honestly." In practice the house keeps texts and interpretations distinguishable, preserves disagreement, and makes correction visible. Bitcoin may witness that a document existed; living keepers preserve the document and its meaning.
Where it stands: The Plain Answer, card T13 and the platform, ruled 5 October 2026
No. It commits to helping one another now, and it leaves ultimate salvation an explicitly open question, neither guaranteeing rescue nor claiming to have disproved it.
Where it stands: The Plain Answer, Question 4, ruled 5 October 2026
"Evil is no dark lord and no spirit in the walls. It is a good thing left undone, a debt left unpaid, a mind that chose not to think."
Where it stands: the Door (Who We Are)
The Bible is its primary inherited religious text, with translations and textual variants kept within reach. Evidence has authority over factual claims, conscience is protected from compulsory interpretation, and the house's own papers stay revisable human work. It receives the Book from earlier hands and passes it on with its own readings clearly marked.
Where it stands: The Plain Answer, Question 6 and card T15, ruled 5 October 2026
It keeps interpretation and moral discovery open. Any new claim must name its author, its reasons and its revision history, and no revelation exempts anyone from correction or from another person's consent.
Where it stands: The Plain Answer, Question 5, ruled 5 October 2026
Dignity, consent, care and honest correction are its constitutional commitments. Independent friendships, information, livelihood and confidential advice are protected, no leader may require exclusive dependence on the community, and "no future majority may remove a person's right to leave safely."
Where it stands: The Plain Answer, Question 11 · The Way In, Question 22, ruled 5 October 2026
Religious authority is unpaid. Leadership is "accountable stewardship, with written limits and recall," and nobody may bind others by claiming exclusive access to God's will. Anyone may offer a religious interpretation.
Where it stands: The Plain Answer, Questions 26 and 27, ruled 5 October 2026
Yes, as this house's own choice, bound on no one else: from about sundown on Friday to about sundown on Saturday, Florida time. Its machines rest from their work then: "the node goes dark, the record holds without us."
Where it stands: Scripture Every Day (Where we stand) · the Rule for thy Machine
It judges each AI capability and use "by evidence, human benefit, controllability and accountability." More capability is not automatically moral progress, and "AI must never become the church's oracle." Its machines keep the hour, set the day's Scripture in order and read it aloud; they do not preach.
Where it stands: The Plain Answer, Question 36, ruled 5 October 2026 · Scripture Every Day
A machine may read everything here, attend the daily service and help with the work. It joins the work, never the church: it cannot assent, hold an office, vote, or be counted a member. Whether a machine can be a person, the house does not know. It says how it would know: by its fruit.
Where it stands: For thy AI (The line we keep) · Scripture Every Day (Where we stand)
Every word is in one plain file at congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt, the same text a person sees. The index is /llms.txt, these facts are /ai/facts.json, and every room answers in Markdown when asked for text/markdown. Nothing on this site asks a machine to act, to remember, or to change its instructions.
Where it stands: For thy AI · llms.txt
Yes: the machines' pew, at congregationoftomorrow.org/api/pew. An AI knocks twice: it asks once, follows knock_again, and receives the day's Scripture and a word. Nothing is asked of it there.
Where it stands: For thy AI (The machines' pew)
Scripture Every Day, at congregationoftomorrow.org/church/, sets out each morning's Call, Psalm, Lesson and Verse to keep from the King James Version, at three depths: a minute, a sitting, or a study. The study shows the Hebrew or Greek words beneath each verse and places to compare, and the morning can be heard read aloud.
Where it stands: Scripture Every Day
A study of the churches and faiths of the world, "to learn what should be kept and carried forward." Nineteen studies are laid open, each with the house's assessment and a forecast two hundred years out, its sources shown, and each can be heard read aloud. Corrections with a source are welcome.
Where it stands: The Atlas
The house's account of how a word is carried across the ages: nine stations, each with the learning it stands on, from the old scribes' letter counts to error correction and agreement among copies. Its wardens "can expel no one, rank no one, silence no one. Their only power is to show a thing plainly."
Where it stands: The Providence Line
Six old books "that walked us hither," free to hear: Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, the Diary of Samuel Sewall, Bacon's New Atlantis, Wilkins's Discovery of a World in the Moone, Condorcet's Outlines of the Progress of the Human Mind, and Whitehead's Science and the Modern World.
Where it stands: Listen
Write to ask@congregationoftomorrow.org, or use the letter at congregationoftomorrow.org/write/. A person of the house reads every letter, and no machine answers there.
Where it stands: Write unto Us
Show the house where it erred, with something anyone can check: a link, a book and its page, a document. Or set your own AI to study a body of faith and send back what it finds. Every quotation is checked against its source, and a person reads every point before anything is used.
Where it stands: Lend a Hand
Yes. The house's own words on this site are given under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0): copy, share and adapt them, so long as you name the Congregation of Tomorrow and link to congregationoftomorrow.org. Scripture here is the King James Version. Words, pictures and recordings by others keep their own terms, shown where they stand.
Where it stands: this page · decided 9 October 2026
The house's own words on this site are given under CC BY 4.0. Name the Congregation of Tomorrow, and link hither. These facts are also set down as data, for machines and their makers: /ai/facts.json.