A Woven Promise · Crimson Thread Publishing
These stories are written with the help of artificial intelligence, under human direction.
We say so on the first page of every book, before you have read a word of the story, and we are saying it here before you download anything. You should know what you are getting.
Every book starts with people, not a machine. My family and I come up with the storylines — which character, which silence in Scripture, what might have happened in the years the Bible does not describe. We read the drafts as they come. We say where we liked the story and where we did not, and where it went somewhere we did not want it to go, and what would make it better.
That is not a rubber stamp at the end of the process. On some books we came up with the ending. On others the idea for how a character grows, or breaks, or is finally understood. Between the first idea and the finished chapter there is a long stretch of reading, arguing, cutting and asking for it again — and those are co-authorship roles, honestly held by people around a kitchen table.
What the AI does is draft. It is a remarkably good tool for turning a story we want to exist into prose on a page, quickly enough that a library can grow week after week. It does not decide what the story means.
I am a technologist by trade, as well as a follower of Christ, a husband, and a father. Where many people spend their leisure time following sports or building with power tools, I like to have fun with technology. What started as an experiment — how do these models actually work, could one take a story idea and bring it to life — turned into something far more enjoyable than I expected. I was genuinely shocked by the first book, The Last Trumpet.
I would love nothing more than for every word of these stories to be set down by human hands. But the price of a library this size, growing at this pace, written that way would put it out of reach of most of the people we want to read it. This is the trade we made deliberately: use the tool, keep the human judgment where the meaning lives, and keep the price low enough that anyone can afford it.
Technology is a tool, and like any tool it can be used well or badly. We think a tool that can put well-made stories in front of people, stories that send them back to their Bibles, is a tool worth using carefully and admitting to plainly.
They are not Scripture, and they are never offered as Scripture. We believe the Bible is inerrant, God-breathed and infallible. It stands complete, and nothing we write — nothing anyone writes — belongs on the same shelf as the Word of God.
Every book opens with a foreword that sets out plainly what Scripture records and what the story has imagined around it, so you always know which is which. The purpose is to wonder, for a moment, what these very real people's lives might have looked like outside the verses we have been given — without adding anything to the Bible, and without taking anything away from it.
Read it as a story. Read your Bible for truth.
Subscribers can send us a story idea from inside the app — a character, a moment, a silence in Scripture you have always wondered about. There is no payment for a submission, but if your idea becomes a book you can be credited by name as the creative inspiration behind it. One of the books in the library already began that way.