Second Nature Journal will be releasing Read Mercer Schuchardt’s piece The Reformation as Media Event in an introduction and seven subsequent sections. A version of this paper was published in The People’s Book: The Reformation and the Bible in April 2017, which was itself a print version of a talk given in 2016 at the Wheaton Theology Conference. Each […]
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
Eschatology and the Technological Future Review
February 6, 2017 By
Michael S. Burdett is a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford’s Wycliffe Hall and holds degrees in engineering, physics, and theology. My imagination tells me he can answer basically any kind of question you have. For example, the last few editions of Wired magazine’s probably left you with a few lingering concerns over genetic engineering, the future of […]
Muting the Voices of the Body: Music, Technology and Ministry, Once Again
June 22, 2016 By
Some telling lessons for contemporary debates about the role of technology in contemporary Christian worship, especially those technologies that organize our collective singing of praises.
The Benedict Option and the Media Ecology of Rod Dreher
May 23, 2016 By
Any Benedict Option that fails to deal honestly and forcefully with our relationship to technology and popular culture will fail. —Rod Dreher When Benedict of Nursia left Rome he traveled forty miles south of the city and entered a forest to pray. From there he began to build monasteries: fortresses to preserve Christian culture against […]
Just Another Day in America: On Location with the Latest Spectacle in the Global Village
December 14, 2015 By
On December 3, 2015, Matt Lauer opened the Today Show in California, when only several hours earlier he had been sitting comfortably in his New York studio. While we were all sleeping NBC flew him and a camera crew across the country so we could watch events of the latest mass killings unfold on location. […]
Hacking Christmas in a Technological Society
December 13, 2015 By
How to use store check-out technology the right way:
Antagonism on YouTube: Metaphor in Online Discourse
November 9, 2015 By
There are a few corners of the digital world that I leave unvisited in order to preserve my sanity, namely the dark net, my ex’s Facebook page, and YouTube comments. Stephen Pihlaja braves the last of these domains in his monograph Antagonism on YouTube: metaphor in online discourse (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). In six chapters spanning […]
Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement
October 26, 2015 By
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.
More Than a “Like”: Social Media Presence as Pastoral Care
September 14, 2015 By
Death and dying are never easy topics to broach. In some cultures, it is taboo to speak or even hint at death. But despite the silence around the topic, death never ceases to march on, ferrying souls from this world to the next. In the digital age the landscape of discussion is changing. No topic […]
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