Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly pervasive, influencing how humans live, work, connect, and worship. What isn’t well developed is the theological foundation for understanding and interacting with future, human-like AI. This research will critically explore the theological basis for communicating with emerging intelligences, and examine the pastoral and ethical implications. While engagement with AI could span a wide range of potential interactions from large language models to future embodied machines, this study will focus on written and oral communications at the pastoral ministry level. Using Paul Tillich’s method of correlation, the research aims to equip churches for meaningful dialogue with—and about—anthropomorphic machines.