Your phone already knows your habits better than most of your friends. It predicts what you will watch, where you will drive, even who you might fall in love with. Yet you still talk about calling, purpose, and grace. What happens when faith and technology start answering the same questions? This book steps into that tension. It looks at predictive algorithms, ai ethics, and digital spirituality without panic or hype, asking what they quietly do to ideas of freedom, guilt, hope, and trust. You will see how online belief systems form in news feeds and comment threads, how data and destiny get blurred in risk scores and forecasts, and how algorithmic bias does more than distort markets: it can bend our sense of what is fair or inevitable. Rather than offering easy outrage, the chapters walk through real decisions: which voices to follow, which apps to trust, how much of your conscience to outsource to systems that claim to be smarter than you. Along the way, you will explore spiritual autonomy in a world of constant personalisation, and rethink the old free will debate in light of code that seems to know your next move. This is for readers of faith, doubt, and everything in between who want sharper language for what they are already feeling. It will not tell you to log off and move to a cabin. It will help you become more awake and responsible where you actually live: on the glowing edge where belief meets the machine.
Faith in the Age of Algorithms
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- Mira Qadari writes at the meeting point of faith, ethics, and technology, helping readers name what they feel but cannot yet articulate. Her work is shaped less by laboratories and boardrooms than by years spent listening to how ordinary people describe their encounters with code, institutions, and the sacred. She is interested in what happens to conscience, community, and hope when the language of risk and optimisation enters everyday life. Raised between traditions that argued fiercely yet prayed side by side, Mira developed a habit of translating across worlds early on. She draws on the long history of religious engagement with new media, from handwritten manuscripts to broadcast radio and early television, to show that today’s questions about algorithms and authority are part of a much older conversation about power and trust. Beyond the page, she has collaborated with educators, community organisers, and technologists seeking wiser ways to use digital tools. She has also mentored younger readers and students learning to think critically about platforms without losing their sense of wonder. Mira brings those practical debates into her writing, offering readers clear frameworks rather than slogans. Her aim is simple but demanding: to help people live with integrity when machines have a great deal to say about what comes next.
