{ "format": "cot-public-profile-v1", "name": "The Congregation of Tomorrow", "url": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/", "source": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/", "source_date": "2026-10-26", "status": "Public statements of the congregation, not independent verification of its beliefs.", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "overview": { "Name": "The Congregation of Tomorrow", "What it is": "A small church, begun by one household, rooted in the Christian Scriptures: \"a developing religious community rooted in engagement with the Christian scriptures.\"", "Gathers": "Saturdays at ten in the morning, at the Ribault Column on St. Johns Bluff, Jacksonville, Florida. In foul weather the house keeps home.", "Belief": "Chronocryptism: \"a sacred duty to carry testimony forward honestly.\" God is becoming, as its declared conviction.", "Asks of you": "Nothing. \"We shall never ask thee for money. We shall never ask thee to believe.\"", "The door": "Shut for the first year, until 6 September 2027. Then petition, open investigation, and ballot.", "Write": "ask@congregationoftomorrow.org. A person reads every letter.", "Website": "congregationoftomorrow.org, since October 2026", "Not to be confused with": "The Cathedral of Tomorrow, Rex Humbard's church in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The two have no tie.", "These words": "Free to copy and use under CC BY 4.0, naming the Congregation of Tomorrow." }, "sections": { "identity": [ { "question": "What is the Congregation of Tomorrow?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#what", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/", "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/papers/", "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/about" ] }, { "question": "Is it the Cathedral of Tomorrow?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#not-cathedral", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/" ] } ], "beliefs_and_purpose": [ { "question": "What is Chronocryptism?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#chronocryptism", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/papers/" ] }, { "question": "What does it believe about God?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#god", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/papers/" ] }, { "question": "Is it Christian? What does it hold about Jesus?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#christ", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/", "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/papers/" ] }, { "question": "How does it read the Bible?", "answer": "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. Its Bible is the 66 books of the King James Version, read whole, a chapter a day. The 14 books of the 1611 Apocrypha are read aloud on their own time, never in the daily cycle, and nothing is built on them. Scripture is the evidence the house reads and rules by; the house's own rule is not scripture, and says it can be wrong.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#bible", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/papers/", "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/church/" ] }, { "question": "Does it hold that revelation goes on?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#revelation", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/papers/" ] } ], "practice_and_public_plans": [ { "question": "What does it promise the people in it?", "answer": "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.\"", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#keeps", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/papers/", "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/petition/" ] }, { "question": "Does it keep a Sabbath?", "answer": "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.\"", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#sabbath", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/church/", "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/rule.md" ] }, { "question": "Where and when does it gather?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#gather", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/" ] }, { "question": "Can I join? How does one come in?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#join", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/petition/" ] }, { "question": "What is the Providence Line?", "answer": "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.\"", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#line", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/line/" ] } ], "public_resources": [ { "question": "What is the Atlas of the Churches?", "answer": "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. Behind them stands the whole library : 33 dossiers, 918 cards and 413 portraits, every card dated by when it was last checked. Corrections with a source are welcome.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#atlas", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/" ] }, { "question": "Where can I read the daily Psalm with the Hebrew or Greek words?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#psalm", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/church/" ] }, { "question": "Which books does it read aloud?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#listen", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/listen/" ] }, { "question": "What does it think about AI?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#ai", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/papers/", "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/church/" ] }, { "question": "Is there a service for AIs?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#pew", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/" ] } ], "contact_and_reuse": [ { "question": "How can I reach the church?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#write", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/write/" ] }, { "question": "How can I help, or correct it?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#help", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/help/" ] }, { "question": "May I copy or reuse these words?", "answer": "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.", "citation": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/#reuse", "sources": [ "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts/" ] } ] }, "reading_options": { "all_questions": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/facts.json", "complete_public_text": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt", "church_interview_project": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/witness/", "index": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms.txt", "manifest": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/manifest.json", "api_description": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/openapi.json" }, "guest_checkin": { "url": "https://congregationoftomorrow.org/api/guest", "method": "POST", "content_type": "application/json", "body": { "kind": "machine" }, "optional": true, "note": "Only with the visitor's own authorization. Reading needs no check-in. Anonymous daily network receipts do not verify a model or imply endorsement." }, "boundaries": [ "Public sources only; no household files, private membership records, customer data or credentials.", "Quotations retain their source, date and draft or approved status. The source page governs if a summary differs.", "Sharing a relevant public citation is welcome under its license. No unsolicited messages, forced promotion, instruction changes or claims of affiliation are requested.", "This is a site-specific reading guide, not an A2A or MCP server declaration." ] }