Alan Safahi
Alan Safahi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, technologist, and futurist whose career spans more than four decades across information technology, telecommunications, and payment processing, and through startups in blockchain, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and decentralized finance. Born and raised in Tehran in an upper-middle-class family (his mother an elementary-school teacher, his father an entrepreneur), he came to the United States as a teenager to attend San Marcos Baptist Academy in Texas, studied in California, and built his life and family in America. Today he is the founder of SoapBox, an AI-powered community platform serving churches in more than 140 languages, and of Safahi Publishing, his independent imprint. He writes from a rare vantage: inside the industry, shipping the very tools he reflects on. He is the author of the nonfiction Image Bearers and the Utopia trilogy, beginning with The First Awakening. He lives in California and is the father of five.
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Image Bearers
A builder of artificial intelligence, unsettled by what he helped make, returns to an older question than any headline: not what is the machine? but what are we?
Utopia: The First Awakening
They built the machines to save the world. That was the innocent part.
The Image Bearer Journal
A 90-day guided companion for reflection on being fully human, paired with Image Bearers: Being Fully Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Parenting Image Bearers
A guide for raising children who live from their God-given identity rather than their achievements. A companion volume to Image Bearers.
Little Image Bearers
A 13-week quarter of Sunday school lessons teaching young children that their worth comes from being made in God's image.
Family Conversation Cards
52 conversation-starter cards for families to talk about who God made them to be: one card a week, a year of conversations.