SparkLit held their awards ceremony in Melbourne Thursday, 24 August 2025, where Made in Our Image: God, Artificial Intelligence and You, the debut work by Stephen Driscoll won the honour of being 2025’s Australian Christian Book of the Year.
The book explores the relationship between Christian faith and emerging AI technology.
AI will make our lives better and worse…We know we can’t rely on humans or market forces to make the right moral calls about the development and implementation of AI, but we can trust the promises of God. SparkLit judges
Driscoll lives in Canberra with his wife, Lauren, and their two children. He serves with the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students at the Australian National University, where he disciples Christian students and shares the gospel with nonbelievers.
Other shortlisted works included: The Body God Gives by Robert S. Smith (Lexham Press); Confessions of an Amateur Saint by Mandy Smith (NavPress); Godaku Tjukurpa by various authors (Bible Society); Modern Genre Theory by Andrew Judd (Zondervan Academic); Preaching in a New Key by Mark R. Glanville (IVP Academic); Priests of History by Sarah Irving-Stonebraker (Zondervan Reflective); Subjects and Citizens by Michael P. Jensen (Matthias Media); This Teeming Mess of Glory by Matthew Pullar (Resource Publications); and World Christianity by Graham Joseph Hill (Cascade Books).
Read: First-time author wins Australian Christian Book of the Year for exploration of AI and faith | Christian Daily News | By Chris Eyte | 26 August 2025
More information about the award: SparkLit | Australian Christian Book of the Year