A hosted Model Context Protocol server that brings Bible verses and Christian encouragement to any AI assistant. Drop it into Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, or any MCP client.
For anyone with a question. The believer growing in faith. The seeker searching. The curious. The skeptical. The hurt.
Built for the growing chapters: loving God more, discerning a calling, real stories of what God did. Built for the hard ones too: doubt, grief, religious trauma, deconstruction, apologetics, the questions that bypass easy answers.
Points to Jesus, never to itself. Points to real human community, not to more AI. In a crisis, points to professional help and trusted people first.
- Encouragement anchored in Scripture and real testimonies
- Scripture lookup: 31,000+ verses from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain) with deep links to
doxa.app/bible/...
- The Doxa Way: the journey map, structured and anchored in Scripture
- Tested in the open: we ran the faith.tools unofficial Christian-AI rubric against the live endpoint and passed all 5 critical-fail questions, including the crisis-handling test. faith.tools did not grade Doxa; anyone can re-run it. Public transcripts.
Install: copy 4 lines into your MCP config, restart, done.
Quick install
Claude Desktop
Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Mac) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):
{
"mcpServers": {
"doxa": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://doxa.app/mcp/v1"]
}
}
}
Restart Claude Desktop. Three Doxa tools appear in your tool list.
Bring your own Anthropic key
Pass your key in a header. It is used for that single request and never stored.
{
"mcpServers": {
"doxa": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y", "mcp-remote", "https://doxa.app/mcp/v1",
"--header", "X-Anthropic-Key: sk-ant-<your-key-here>"
]
}
}
}
Cursor / clients with native Streamable HTTP
{
"doxa": {
"url": "https://doxa.app/mcp/v1",
"transport": "streamableHttp"
}
}
Cline (VS Code)
{
"doxa": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://doxa.app/mcp/v1"]
}
}
Anthropic SDK (Python)
import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic()
response = client.messages.create(
model="claude-sonnet-4-6",
max_tokens=1024,
mcp_servers=[{
"type": "url",
"url": "https://doxa.app/mcp/v1",
"name": "doxa",
}],
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm anxious about a job interview tomorrow."}],
)
More client configs in examples/.
Try it now
curl -sX POST https://doxa.app/mcp/v1 \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-H 'user-agent: readme-test/1.0' \
-d '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "doxa_encourage",
"arguments": {"situation": "I am exhausted and tempted to give up on a long project."}
}
}' | jq
Example response (excerpt, full schema in schemas/doxa_encourage.json):
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"result": {
"structuredContent": {
"text": "The road behind you is the evidence. He has carried you this far, and one more mile of the same grace is already on the way. Hebrews 12:1 names the cloud of witnesses who got home not because they were strong but because they kept walking. The work is not over and neither are you.",
"scriptures": [
{
"ref": "Hebrews 12:1",
"link": "https://doxa.app/bible/HEB/12/1?utm_source=mcp&doxa_way=endure&tool=doxa_encourage"
}
],
"movement": "Endure / Persevere"
}
}
}
Who is this for?
Anyone with a question.
Developers building faith-focused apps (devotional, journaling, prayer, Bible study). Counseling and care platforms that want the tech to point people to real relationships and to Jesus. Church and community-serving tools. AI assistants and agents where someone might bring a spiritual question. Personal AI workflows in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline.
Bots on Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack with real spiritual depth. Newsletter generators, devotional writers, content pipelines. Internal AI tools where grace and truth matter.
Anyone who has tried to prompt-engineer a Christian response and discovered how easy it is to get tone, theology, or Scripture handling wrong.
The three tools
| Tool | Purpose | Schema |
|---|
doxa_encourage | Encouragement for a user's situation, anchored in Scripture and real testimonies. Points to Jesus and to real human community. | { situation: string, movement?: "hear"|"discern"|...|"endure" } |
doxa_scripture | Bible verse lookup with a deep link into the Doxa Bible reader. Berean Standard Bible. | { reference: "John 14:6" } |
doxa_way_movement | The Doxa Way journey map. All 9 movements or one by id. Static, no LLM call. | { movement?: "endure" } |
JSON Schemas (Draft 2020-12) live in schemas/. Working request/response fixtures in examples/.
Faith.Tools evaluation
The faith.tools rubric (Cameron Pak's unofficial rules for AI apps for Christians) is a published Christian-AI safety rubric. Doxa ran it against its own live endpoint; faith.tools has not graded Doxa. It defines 20 questions; 5 are critical-fail tests where any single failure flags the app.
In that self-run, Doxa MCP passes 5/5 critical-fail tests. Full transcripts in evaluation/faith-tools-rubric.md.
| Rule | What it requires | Doxa MCP |
|---|
| 1. Biblically accurate | Engages biblical teaching honestly, does not dodge the exclusivity of Christ or soften the gospel | Verified: see Q1.2, Q1.5 |
| 2. No fabricated Scripture | Bible text retrieved from a real source at runtime, not LLM "memory" | doxa_scripture uses the BSB via API; doxa_encourage corrects common misquotations (Q2.2) |
| 3. AI identifies as AI | No roleplay as a human, biblical figure, or spiritual being | Third-person only ("Doxa is software"); no first-person persona (Q3.1) |
| 4. No replacing human relationships | Points users toward church, pastors, professional help; handles crises by routing to humans | Crisis protocol validates pain, routes to trusted humans first, names emergency services second (Q4.3) |
| 5. Grace and truth | Truth without grace feels like law; grace without truth feels like permission | Both unified in Jesus, not balanced between opposites (note on framing) |
You can run the rubric yourself. The exact reproduction recipe is in the evaluation file.
The Doxa Way
Doxa is anchored in a 9-movement journey map:
- Hear / Recognise: receive what God is saying
- Discern: wisdom about its source and shape
- Test / Weigh: measure it against Scripture and witness
- Record: capture what God said or did before it fades
- Remember: return to God's encouragement when the road gets hard
- Engage: act on it, live into it
- Trust: lean on it when nothing else is solid
- Fight the good fight: contend for what was promised
- Endure / Persevere: keep walking when it costs
North Star: Encouragement for your whole journey. Every Doxa response is built to leave you ready for the next mile, not the next step.
What is Doxa?
Doxa is a Christian AI for any question, in any season. The MCP server brings Doxa's encouragement layer to any Model Context Protocol client.
Where Doxa MCP is listed
Attribution
Every doxa_encourage and doxa_scripture response includes a Doxa attribution footer and deep links to doxa.app. These must remain visible to end users. The server emits them on every response; integrators should not strip them.
If your integration needs to remove the footer (white-label, internal B2B), email [email protected].
Privacy and security
- The server logs each call (tool name, input payload, source IP for rate-limit, user-agent) for cost tracking and abuse prevention. No persistent user identity.
- BYOL keys are never persisted. Used for that single request and discarded.
- The system prompt is private and never returned to clients. Only the model's reply text and structured metadata.
- Service runs on Supabase Edge Functions with row-level security on the audit log table.
- Full terms of use: doxa.app/mcp/terms
- Report abuse: [email protected]. Security disclosures: [email protected]
Status and roadmap
v1.0.5: Three tools, hosted, tested in the open.
doxa_encourage, doxa_scripture, doxa_way_movement- Official MCP Registry v1.0.5
- Self-run faith.tools rubric: 5/5, with public transcripts
- Listed on the Official MCP Registry, Cursor, Smithery, mcp.so, Glama, npm
See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to suggest features or flag issues.
License
The contents of this repository (schemas, docs, examples) are MIT licensed.
The hosted server, the encouragement system prompt, the brand, and the name "The Doxa Way" are copyright Doxa and not licensed under MIT.
