Doxa MCP Server

Christian encouragement and Bible lookup. Three tools: encourage, scripture (Berean Standard Bible), and the 9-movement Doxa Way framework.

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Doxa MCP

A Christian AI for any question, in any season.
Truth that points to Jesus, and to real relationships.
https://doxa.app/mcp/v1

Get the Doxa app · DoxaBot on Telegram · faith.tools 5/5

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
Independently evaluated: 5/5 on the faith.tools Christian-AI rubric, including the crisis-handling test. 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 is the only published independent Christian-AI safety evaluation. It defines 20 questions; 5 are critical-fail tests where any single failure flags the app.

Doxa MCP scores 5/5 on the 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.

iOS / Android app
DoxaBot on Telegram
Doxa MCP (this server)
doxa.app

Where Doxa MCP is listed

Anthropic MCP Registry: registry.modelcontextprotocol.io (search "doxa")
Cursor Directory: cursor.directory/plugins/doxa-mcp
Smithery: smithery.ai/server/garth/doxa-mcp
mcp.so: mcp.so/server/doxa-mcp
Glama: glama.ai/mcp/servers/The-Doxa-Way/doxa-mcp-schema
npm: @thedoxaway/mcp-client

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

v1.0.3: Three tools, hosted, independently evaluated.

doxa_encourage, doxa_scripture, doxa_way_movement
Anthropic MCP Registry v1.0.3
faith.tools 5/5 with public transcripts
Listed on Anthropic 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.

_{Topics: mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, christian-mcp, bible-mcp, scripture-mcp, christian-ai, faith-ai, bible-api, encouragement-api, spiritual-ai, doxa, claude-mcp, claude-desktop, cursor-mcp, cline, anthropic, streamable-http, apologetics, doubt, grief, calling, hope

For: developers building Christian apps, devotional tools, Bible study tools, prayer apps, faith-focused agents, counseling platforms, church management software, AI assistants in Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline. Anyone with a question.}