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Redeeming everyday technology for the journey of faith

Every believer in Jesus Christ is on a path of sanctification, but we are all at different stages along that path. The Digital Path exists to redeem the technology we use each day for the purpose of encouraging fellow believers to keep making progress in their spiritual journey.

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The AI That Always Agrees With You

It's ten o'clock, the argument is still replaying, and the most patient listener you've ever had is glad to hear the whole story. Two new studies suggest we should think harder about what we're asking it for.

Can AI Create?

AI can hand you a poem that never existed. Whether that makes it a creator, and what it does to our own creating, are the harder questions

The Heart Behind the Prompt

Policies can tell me what I'm allowed to do with AI. They can't tell me why I reached for it. That question belongs to the heart, and Scripture has been asking it far longer than we have had these tools.

Books

Learning to build, from the ground up

Textbooks that teach real technical skill while asking what it means to build wisely.

From Data to AI
First Edition

From Data to AI

Foundations of ethical data management.

Build SQL queries, tame messy datasets, and carry raw data all the way to a working chatbot, while keeping ethical stewardship in view throughout.

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The Friction that Forms Us

Engaging AI with Biblical Wisdom

AI is changing faster than rules can keep up. ENGAGE gives ordinary Christians a Scripture-shaped framework for deciding what to welcome, limit, delay, or refuse.

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Problem Solving with Code
First Edition

Problem Solving with Code

C# programming through the eyes of faith.

Follow Alex as he builds an adventure game step by step, learning loops, conditionals and objects alongside biblical wisdom about stewardship.

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Apps

Small tools, made with care

Built to be genuinely useful, and to stay out of your way.

Comb Sweeper
iOS · 0.99

Comb Sweeper

The puzzle adventure that reimagines minesweeper with a honeycomb twist.

Minesweeper reimagined on a honeycomb. Hexagonal boards, difficulty from Beginner to Hardcore, achievements to unlock, and hundreds of puzzles.

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Prayer Minder
iOS · $0.99

Prayer Minder

Your tool for tracking and organizing your prayer life.

Unlimited prayer lists, scripture tied to each request, daily reminders, answered-prayer tracking, and iCloud sync. No ads, no in-app purchases.

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Who's behind this

John D. Delano, Ph.D.

I write textbooks that teach programming and data work from a Christian perspective, and I build small apps that try to be genuinely useful. The Digital Path is where that work lives — the books, the apps, and an ongoing conversation about using technology well.

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