Digital Hush Harbors: Black and Womanist Practical Theology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence An Experimental Multimodal Roundtable on Algorithmic Disenfranchisement, Digital Care, and Ecclesial Futures

Artificial intelligence and digital infrastructures are reshaping how religious communities imagine authority, practice care, and form community. This experimental multimodal roundtable gathers scholars working at the intersections of practical theology, womanist theology, Black digital religion, pastoral care, and artificial intelligence to explore how digital worlds are transforming ecclesial practice and theological imagination. Centering Black and womanist perspectives, participants examine digital environments as contested spiritual terrains shaped by algorithmic power, racialized violence, and techno-colonial extraction, while also recognizing them as sites of resistance, care, and communal creativity. The conversation engages themes including digital hush harbors and insurgent proclamation, queering womanist Afrofuturist AI ethics, Black posthuman futures, digital spiritual care, and evolving forms of digital ecclesiology. Through short provocations, multimodal engagement, and collaborative dialogue, the session invites practical theology to imagine more just and liberatory technological futures.