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# A Call to Care
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/a-call-to-care/
- Published: 2026-09-01T05:00:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T05:00:42.000Z
- Description: The most valuable writing and preaching will be the kind that costs a real person time, attention, and care.
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Christian Living, Current Events, pastoring, preaching

I received a [yunomi](https://kalonceramics.ca/products/mocha-and-blue-lidded-yunomi?ref=dashhouse.com) (a Japanese cup with no handle) a couple of months ago for my birthday. I love it. It was handcrafted by a [local potter](https://kalonceramics.ca/?ref=dashhouse.com). I asked for it because I wanted a daily reminder of the kind of work that I want to do. I don’t want to batch-produce content or add to the slop that’s flooding the Internet. I want to write, preach, and read slowly with love and great care.

The more the world is flooded with cheap and mass-produced items, the more that this matters. I spoke to a furniture maker recently who decried the trend toward buying cheap, disposable furniture that’s replaced every five years. Few people are buying the handmade, solid-wood furniture he makes that will last a lifetime. The more the world has things we throw away, the more I like sitting on the solid wood chair in my living room. This chair has been here longer than I have, and it will likely last longer than I do too.

According to [Pew Research](https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/08/20/how-much-of-the-internet-is-written-with-ai/?ref=dashhouse.com), it seems that a third of new online content is likely written or substantially edited by AI. I’m guessing this number will grow. The more we have to wade through AI slop, the more human-written content will stand out. I think we’ll be able to tell, and I think it will matter.

The same applies to preaching. As long as I can remember, preachers have been able to take shortcuts in the process of preparing a sermon. We can piggyback on the work of others, and now we can leverage AI in the research, writing, and evaluation of our sermons. Still, nothing will ever replace the preacher’s work and meditation on the text. I can tell when a preacher has sweated through the preparation process. I can tell when preachers have first applied the sermons to themselves. I can tell when a preacher (including me) has not, and there’s a world of difference. The more shortcuts preachers can take, the more valuable it will become when preachers do all the hard work necessary to not only prepare a good sermon but prepare their hearts as well. No shortcut will ever get you there.

This is a call to care. It’s a call to inconvenience and inefficiency. It’s a call to bucking the trends, to developing one’s craft, to wrestling with God and the work he has given us to do. I would never say that it’s always wrong to use AI, but I would argue that some things matter too much to entrust the work to a machine. We need human writers. We need human preachers. We need to take a stand and fight against the flood of poor-quality work produced by machines that try to seem real. Instead, we should create what is genuine, human, and costly.

The more we’re flooded with what’s cheap and commodified, the more our human work will matter. Never surrender the best of what it means to be human to a machine. The more machines do the work, the more we need people like you to write, preach, speak, create, and love in ways that machines cannot.