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SoapBox Faith MCP Server

io.github.alansafahi/soapbox-faith
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SoapBox Faith is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 19 tools.

Faith tools for AI agents: cited KJV Scripture, ORA Q&A, sermons, churches, prayer & giving.

Uptime history 44 hours of history
44 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
19
Tools
read from the server
222 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add soapbox-faith --transport http https://foyekanoxpnkydoibaas.supabase.co/functions/v1/faith-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "soapbox-faith": {
      "url": "https://foyekanoxpnkydoibaas.supabase.co/functions/v1/faith-mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.soapbox-faith]
url = "https://foyekanoxpnkydoibaas.supabase.co/functions/v1/faith-mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "soapbox-faith": {
      "url": "https://foyekanoxpnkydoibaas.supabase.co/functions/v1/faith-mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "soapbox-faith": {
      "url": "https://foyekanoxpnkydoibaas.supabase.co/functions/v1/faith-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 19

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

purchase
purchase_bundle
Buy a bundle (a sermon series — multiple sermons sold together at one price) using prepaid marketplace credits. Grants access to EVERY sermon in the bundle. Same terms as purchase_sermon: church keeps 70% of net, SoapBox 30% (a content sale, not a donation). Idempotent. Find bundles via browse_catalog (type: bundle). No key / no credits? Pay per-call in USDC on Base via x402 — call pay_with_x402 with this bundle_id.
purchase_sermon
Buy permanent access to a paid sermon using your prepaid marketplace credits. SoapBox is the Merchant of Record: the church keeps 70% and SoapBox takes a 30% platform fee (this is a content SALE, NOT a donation — donations always go 100% directly to the church). After purchase, get_sermon returns the full transcript. Purchases are idempotent (buying the same sermon twice won't double-charge). If you have insufficient credits, check get_credit_balance and top up. No key / no credits? Pay per-call in USDC on Base via x402 instead — call pay_with_x402 with this sermon_id (agent-native, no SoapBox account).
ask
ask_ora
Ask ORA, SoapBox's Scripture study aid, a Bible or faith question. Returns a grounded answer that cites public-domain (KJV) passages, plus the citations used. ORA is a STUDY AID — not a pastor, counselor, or therapist; for personal crises or pastoral/medical needs it points to a trusted pastor or professional. Use this for explanatory/study questions ('what does Romans 8 teach about...', 'where does the Bible discuss...'); use get_verse when you just need a verse's text.
browse
browse_catalog
Browse purchasable faith-content products on SoapBox (currently consented sermons; reading-plan and devotional bundles coming). Returns products with id, title, church, and price. Then buy with purchase_sermon. Optional church_id and text filter. No key required.
churches
find_churches
Find churches near a location from SoapBox's public church directory. Given latitude/longitude (and optional radius, denomination filter), returns nearby churches with name, denomination, city/state/country, website, distance in miles, and whether the church is on SoapBox (with its community id for deep-linking). Public directory data only — no personal contact info.
credit
get_credit_balance
Check how many marketplace credits your API key has (in cents) for buying paid sermon access, plus your tier and daily rate limit. Top-ups are done via the topup API action or the SoapBox developer portal.
faith
get_faith_context
Read a user's portable 'faith context' to personalize your responses — their denomination, preferred language, faith journey, and ministry interests — shared WITH THE USER'S EXPLICIT CONSENT. Requires the user's consent_token with the 'context:read' scope (bound to this agent). Use it to tailor tone, tradition, and language. It returns only the user's declared profile (never their private prayers or journal).
give
give_to_church
Make a one-time donation to a church ON BEHALF OF A USER, within the spending caps they pre-authorized. Requires the user's consent_token with the 'giving:write' scope (bound to this agent) and a card they saved in the SoapBox app. The gift goes straight to the church (passthrough — SoapBox takes no cut). Rejected if the amount exceeds the per-gift or monthly cap. Pass a stable idempotency_key to avoid double-charging on retries. Amounts are in the smallest currency unit (cents).
lectionary
get_lectionary
Get the Western (Revised Common Lectionary / Roman) liturgical season, liturgical color, RCL year (A/B/C), and any major feast for a date (defaults to today). Useful for date-aware, season-appropriate faith content. Daily readings are not included (those tables are licensed). No key required.
lookup
lookup_strongs
Look up a Strong's Greek/Hebrew lexicon entry (lemma, transliteration, gloss, definition).
pay
pay_with_x402
Pay for a paid sermon or bundle per-call in USDC on Base using the x402 protocol — the AGENT-NATIVE rail, no SoapBox account, API key, or prepaid credits required (https://github.com/coinbase/x402). Two-step, exactly per spec: (1) call with just the sermon_id (or bundle_id) and NO payment to get back the HTTP-402 payment requirements — the USDC amount, asset, network ('base'), and SoapBox's payTo receive address. (2) Send USDC on Base to that payTo, then call again with x_payment set to a base64-encoded JSON payload carrying your broadcast Base tx hash ({"txHash":"0x..."}) — SoapBox verifies the on-chain transfer, records the sale (church keeps 70%), and returns the transcript. Idempotent per tx hash. Gasless EIP-3009 'exact' payments via an x402 facilitator are also accepted in the same x_payment field.
prayer
check_prayer_status
Check how many people are praying for a prayer request previously submitted for a user (and whether it's been marked answered). Requires the same user's consent_token; only returns status for that user's own prayers.
score
score_doctrinal_fit
Assess how well a statement aligns with a named Christian tradition's historic doctrinal positions (e.g. Reformed, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Eastern Orthodox). Returns an impartial alignment rating, score, summary, and the relevant doctrinal loci. Analytical, not proselytizing. No key required.
sermon
get_sermon
Fetch full metadata and (optionally) the transcript for ONE sermon by its id — typically a sermon_id returned by search_sermons. Only returns sermons a pastor has opted in to share with agents; otherwise returns not-found. If the sermon is paid and you haven't purchased it, the transcript is withheld and a price is returned — call purchase_sermon first. Free sermons return the transcript directly.
sermons
search_sermons
Semantically search real sermons on SoapBox that pastors have explicitly opted in to share with AI agents. Returns ranked transcript excerpts with the sermon title, church, speaker, scripture reference, and a start-time (seconds) so you can cite the exact moment. Use this to find what churches are actually preaching on a topic. Only consented, published sermons are searchable.
submit
submit_prayer_request
Post a prayer request to SoapBox's prayer wall ON BEHALF OF A USER, so their community can pray for it. Requires the user's consent_token (which they generate in the SoapBox app and which must include the 'prayer:write' scope) — an API key alone is not enough to act for a user. Returns the new prayer_id; use check_prayer_status to see how many are praying.
synthesize
synthesize_speech
Generate spoken-audio (text-to-speech) for a verse, prayer, or devotional in 50+ languages, and get back a playable audio URL. Pass BCP-47 language (e.g. en-US, es-ES, sw-KE), optional voice/gender. Results are cached. Requires an API key (audio generation has real cost).
verify
verify_scripture
Verify whether a quote is real Scripture and cited correctly (anti-hallucination). Returns whether it matches a real verse, the canonical KJV reference + text, a confidence score, and — if you pass a claimed reference — whether the attribution is correct. Use this before presenting any Bible quote to avoid misquotes/fabrications.
verse
get_verse
Look up a public-domain KJV Bible verse by book, chapter, and verse.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://foyekanoxpnkydoibaas.supabase.co/functions/v1/faith-mcp streamable-http answering 214 ms 8 min ago

SoapBox Faith — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can SoapBox Faith do?
It exposes 19 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ask_ora, browse_catalog, check_prayer_status, find_churches, get_credit_balance, get_faith_context and 13 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is SoapBox Faith working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 222 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect SoapBox Faith?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does SoapBox Faith need an API key?
No. SoapBox Faith completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 19 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is SoapBox Faith?
It answers our handshake in 222 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.