I've been putting Anthropic's new Fable 5 model through its paces, and the best test I know is real work. So, here's an offer. Pitch me something in the comments: a tool you'd personally use, that other members of Ministry Unlocked would benefit from too, and small enough to build in a few hours. I'll pick one and "attempt it" and if successful and useful will be free for everyone in this community. Fair warning that "attempt" is the honest verb. To show what the model can do, I used it to build an interactive quiz and extensive scoring framework for Donna. This is just the frontend quiz: https://skoolology.netlify.app/ The reasoning is the strongest I've worked with, and I'd rather prove it on something you'll use than just say it. Let's get creative!

You finish your quiet time full of conviction and clarity. By Thursday, you can barely remember what God showed you on Monday. There's a simple fix. Anyone who has spent real time in the Word knows the feeling. You're studying a passage, and suddenly it opens up. Connections form. An idea takes shape, or a hard question finally makes sense, or you see exactly how a text speaks to someone in your small group. You feel like you could talk about it for an hour. Then life happens. The kids need breakfast, the meeting starts, the week rolls on. When you sit down to prepare that lesson or write that sermon, the insight is a faint outline of what it was. Pastors and Bible teachers have fought this for centuries with journals, commonplace books, and sermon notebooks. There's now a way to use AI as a study companion that captures everything as you think it through, and it borrows a technique from an unlikely place: a small instruction file written for programmers. We'll look at exactly where it came from, then translate it for anyone with a free AI chat and an open Bible. The big idea: let the AI interview you, and write everything down as you go Most people use AI by asking it questions. This technique flips that. You ask the AI to interview you, one question at a time, about a passage, a sermon, a lesson plan, or a ministry decision. It plays the role of a thoughtful study partner who keeps asking "what do you mean by that?" and "how does that connect to the verse before it?" The interview draws out what's already forming in your heart and mind. But the real point is what happens alongside it: every answer gets captured into an organized document the moment you give it. The conversation is the means. The document is the end. Here's why that matters. AI assistants have limited working memory. In a long conversation, your early observations get fuzzy and eventually drop out entirely. If the AI is only holding your reflections in its head, your best thought from the start of the session may be gone by the end.

If you watch America's Got Talent, you may have caught the dancing robots that wowed both the judges and the crowd last night. They come from a company called Unitree. It reminded me of a stay years ago at one of the first hotels in the country to use a simple delivery robot. You could call the front desk for snacks or supplies, and the little machine would roll right up to your door. That was close to a decade ago, so it's remarkable how far the technology has come since then. Now imagine that same kind of robot rolling around your church lobby on a Sunday morning. It greets the kids as they arrive, learns their names, and challenges them with a question on the way in. "Who spent three days inside a big fish?" or "Can you finish this verse with me?" The ones who get it right light up, the ones who miss it want another shot next week, and suddenly scripture memory feels like a game they look forward to instead of homework. Pair it with a real greeter at the door and you've got the best of both, a warm human welcome and a little spark of fun that sends kids running toward their classrooms. 𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗯𝘆. It's just a reminder of how quickly the world is moving, and a couple of questions worth sitting with. On one side, which new tools actually make sense for spreading the message, the way the printing press, radio, and live streaming each did in their time? And on the other, as those tools keep changing, what are the things we want to make sure never do?

We are thrilled to recognize @Jean Day McCarthy as our Member of the Month for May 2026. Jean currently sits at the top of our 30-day leaderboard, but that is only part of her story. What truly sets her apart is the encouragement and positivity she brings to this community every single day. Her energy is genuinely contagious, and it lifts everyone around her. From what we can tell, this is not something she turns on just for us. She shows up the same way across other communities and within her own. Jean is the founder of The Digital Trail Guide on Skool, where she helps women 50+ navigate their own paths forward. It is fitting work for someone with her background as a park ranger, where guiding people through unfamiliar terrain was part of the job. She has simply traded the trails of the wilderness for the trails of the digital world. 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀. Normally, being named Member of the Month comes with the option to have me write a song about you and/or your community somewhere down the road. Jean, though, did not have to wait. Her spirit impressed me so much that her anthem was written a couple of months ago. It is called "You Were Made for This Climb," and I think the title says everything about who Jean is. 🎉 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱. Let's all give her a well-earned round of applause! 👏

There's a pretty big hint in the picture! 😉