Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement

What does the body have to do with ministry? What does the incarnation have to do with the Christian life? The answer is simple: everything.

The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World

Our technological advancements have one trajectory: up. Up the corporate ladder, up in social status, up and away from our surroundings, our physical demands, from the bore of the everyday. We are headed up, yet the happiest people in the world are the Danes sitting down to have dinner. Editor’s note: The following is an […]

my age of information

in the dream

the headline always holds
the same note

The Screwtape Letters Continued: Technological Progress

My Dear Wormwood: We have succeeded in convincing the vermin that technological progress is the same as moral progress. Our old enemy, that Oxford don, even gave it a name: “chronological snobbery”—or, what is new is good, since it is more “advanced,” “modern,” “up to date,” and so on.  But that old character, who coined […]

On Entrapment In a Media Era

Ours is a world of gorging
Half blind.
Looks alright, take a bite,
Leave it behind.

The Word Without Flesh: An Ethical Evaluation of Digital Media in Multi-Site Worship

It is not news to anyone that digital media use is a prominent characteristic of 21st century living. It is also not news to anyone that the American church is regrettably quick to fall in line with cultural whims (being all things to all people while remaining in the world but not of it is […]

Look Up

“I have 422 friends, yet I’m lonely.” This is for all of us who need a reminder to shut our computers and look up from our smart phones, but who respond better to advice when it rhymes. Written, performed and directed by Gary Turk, who describe his video as ” a lesson taught to us through a love story, in […]

Paranoid Narcissism, Anxiety, and Embodiment in a Digital Culture

There are so many different sources of anxiety. I’m anxious about you reading this post and you’re probably anxious about wasting time reading this post. This week, Mark Zuckerberg got so anxious that he called President Obama to chat about some NSA activity he didn’t particularly like. This week, Dostoevsky has some advice for us […]

How to Have a Healthy Relationship with the Internet

  There’s lots of writing out there on how the internet helps us, hurts us, makes us better, makes us smarter, makes us lonely, makes us less lonely, et cetera. But there’s not often a lot of writing that gives advice on how to live in a digital world while protecting against the “dangers” associated […]

Reading List: November 25

  Each week, we put together a reading list of the best articles on technology, new media, and religion from across the web. Here’s what we’re reading this week. Happy Thanksgiving! Redeeming Technologies – The New Atlantis “For the secularization hypothesis, the evidence of history is decidedly mixed. It is, in spite of Nietzsche’s astute observation, […]

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