The New York Times contributes to the conversation of growing public concern for the unintended consequences of social media
How Podcasting Hurts Preaching
January 6, 2018 By
“Sermons belong in church, not our earbuds.” –Read Mercer Schuchardt for Christianity Today
The Most Important Thinker We Don’t Know
January 5, 2018 By
We knew about Neil Postman’s presentation at NewTech98, but we didn’t know about this one…
Marshall McLuhan- The Playboy Interview
September 29, 2017 By
The one good thing Playboy brought into the cultural conversation: the long-form interview
In Amish Country, The Future is Calling
September 18, 2017 By
“People are treating those phones like they are gods,” she said. “They’re bowing down to it at the table, bowing down to it when they’re walking. Here we say we don’t bow down to idols, and that’s getting dangerously close, I think.” — NY Times
Media Ecology’s Dead Sea Scrolls
March 27, 2017 By
The Dead Sea Scrolls were a hugely important discovery for biblical scholarship. They contained ancient manuscripts of Scripture as well as extra-biblical literature that helped scholars understand the cultural and historical place of these scriptures. Media Ecology is about to experience a Dead Sea Scrolls moment. Eric McLuhan has gathered and expanded on all of […]
Surprise: You’re the New Medium
February 8, 2017 By
So get ready for your parents to complain that if you really loved them, you’d keep the snap streak going. -David Pierce, “What Lies Ahead” (Wired, February 2017) The content of the new medium is the what? That’s right: the old medium. Of course, in the digital age, what the hell even is the old or new […]
Media Ecological Poetry: “Religious Climate”
January 19, 2017 By
Dr. Read Mercer Schuchardt and his colleague, Dr. William Irwin have recently published a swift but piercing piece called “Religious Climate.” It’s William Carlos Williams meets Neil Postman doused in Scriptural truth. What could possibly be cooler? Religious Climate by William Irwin and Read Mercer Schuchardt
A brief note on “millennials” and their “problem”
January 9, 2017 By
Wired published a piece in their September 2016 issue titled “Like. Flirt. Ghost: A Journey into the Social Media Lives of Teens.” It consisted of mini-portraits of five individuals from across the country. The author, Mary H. K. Choi, writes gracefully, allowing them the flexibility and flux to be and not to be what they […]
Jacques and Wendell
January 4, 2017 By
A writer for the International Jacques Ellul Society recently published a wonderful little essay comparing the thoughts and standpoints of their namesake with that of Wendell Berry. If you’ve got a little less than 10 minutes of free time and you want to feel smarter and more human at the end of it, then give […]
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