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Godwin's Law
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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James 1:19-20, Ephesians 4:29, Proverbs 18:21, Colossians 4:6, Proverbs 10:19, Matthew 12:36-37, Proverbs 29:11, 2 Timothy 2:23-24, Proverbs 17:27-28, James 3:5-6, Ecclesiastes 10:12-14, Psalm 141:3
Have you ever heard of Godwin's Law? While it may sound like some overly technical scientific hypothesis, it’s actually quite simple. Godwin's Law, first coined in 1990 by an an attorney and e...
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Little Children Wandering the Aisles of the Internet
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Ashley Hales
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Addiction isn’t just measured in time spent connected to screens but also in how it dulls our spiritual sensibilities. We use social media to blunt the edges of overwhelm, to find something to thrill ...
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Adolescence and the Pings, Not Pong
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Craig Detweiler
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Adolescents have been offered a license to post without any accompanying ethical framework. Is it fair to blame teens for misusing tools that didn’t exist in our childhood? If I had been given a phone...
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Sips of Online Connection
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Stephen Colbert
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Matthew 12:36, Proverbs 25:11, Colossians 4:6, James 1:19, Ecclesiastes 4:12, Proverbs 18:24
Don’t all these little tweets, these little sips of online connection, add up to one big gulp of real conversation?
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Tim Wu
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When an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.
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Computer Mishaps
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Ken Burnett
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Computers give rise to many amusing salutations that could also offend. Humorous examples include the legendary Mr. Obe, a fine old West African name that didn’t happen to belong to the recipient (OBE...
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The Smiling Selfie in Auschwitz
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Craig Detweiler
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Did you see the “Smiling Selfie in Auschwitz”? An American teenager touring Auschwitz stirred up a firestorm of criticism when she posted a picture of herself smiling amid a concentration camp (and ev...
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The Yolocaust
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Craig Detweiler
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- Social Media
Israeli artist Shahak Shapira crafted a creative and confrontational response to inappropriate selfies posted at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. He photoshopped the most insensitive photo...
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Aziz Ansari
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I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.
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The Origin of the Term “Gaslighting”
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Chuck DeGroat
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In His book When Narcissism Comes to Church, Chuck DeGroat describes a common tool employed on social media, gaslighting: Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse that draws its name from a 1938 Bri...
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Having Each Other at a Digital Distance
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Sherry Turkle
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In the short term, online communication makes us feel more in charge of our time and self-presentation. If we text rather than talk, we can have each other in amounts we can control. And texting and e...
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The Guise of Connection
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Jay Y. Kim
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Proverbs 18:1, John 13:34-35, Hebrews 10:24-25, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Colossians 3:16
As the speed and choices of the digital age send us hurling toward impatience and shallowness, they culminate in its most damaging consequence: isolation. Social media, in particular, lures us in unde...
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Brian King
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- Worry
- Social Media
I love social media, but it really does provide worry fuel for a lot of people.
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Don’t Take this From Us
Author

Heather Thompson Day
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- Comparison
- Social Media
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James 3:16, Galatians 5:26, Romans 12:15, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Philippians 3:17, Proverbs 27:17, Hebrews 10:24
Comparison can be a bad thing, but it can also be a good thing. I’m a millennial, so I would never tell you to shut down all your socials and go back to the Dark Ages. I love that I know you had sushi...
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When Values Turn Vicious
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Jay Y. Kim
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Ecclesiastes 7:8, Psalm 27:14, James 5:7-8
The digital age’s technological advancements boast three major contributions to the improvement of human experience, which in turn have become its undeniable values: We have access to what we want wh...
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The London Times 1886
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- Advertising
The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.
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Our Leisure Time Rising on the Internet
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Leisure has changed significantly since the dawn of the internet age. A 2008 international survey of 27,500 adults between the ages of 18 and fifty-five found that people spend 30% of their leisure ti...
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Eric Schmidt
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My guess—and I think this will be debated for a long time—is that humans are very communicative, and so the fact that you’re talking to more people with shorter bursts of communication is probably net...
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Alone Together
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Jay Y. Kim
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Proverbs 18:24, Romans 12:9-12, Hebrews 10:24-25, Galatians 3:2, John 13:34-35, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Proverbs 27:17, Proverbs 18:1
In this excerpt from Jay Y. Kim’s book, Analog Church , the author shares about an experience at a local restaurant after being convicted of his own smartphone use at home, keeping him from being p...
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T. S. Eliot
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- Distraction
- Digital Age
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Stephen Colbert
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- The Internet
- Digital Age
Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.
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The Struggles of Parenting in the Digital Age
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Jonathan Haidt
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When I talk with parents of adolescents, the conversation often turns to smartphones, social media, and video games. The stories parents tell me tend to fall into a few common patterns. One is the “co...
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Jay Y. Kim
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- Social Media
At their best, social media and other digital spaces can be wonderful initiating spaces that lead to true human connection, but they can never become home for those connections; they’ll always fall sh...
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Leisure has changed significantly since the dawn of the internet age. A 2008 international survey of 27,500 adults between the ages of 18 and fifty-five found that people spend 30% of their leisure ti...
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A Shaming for Taking Selfies
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Craig Detweiler
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Did you follow the shaming of sorority girls that were caught on camera taking selfies during an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game? The male television announcers bemoaned “every girl locked into the...
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Northrop Frye
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Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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A Social Media Ritual Sacrifice
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Mike Cosper
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- Social Media
- Appearances
I witnessed a ritual sacrifice in the middle of a cool, third-wave coffee shop the other day. It’s the sort of place that attracts herds of bearded hipsters and where they brew your coffee by hand, on...
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Tony Reinke
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Satan blinds hearts by filling eyes with worthless things. His veil over human hearts today is a veil of pixels, and the chains of his spiritual bondage are tethered to the world’s theater.
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The FaceBook Version of a Family Dinner
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Sherry Turkle
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In a television commercial for Facebook, a large, gregarious family sits down to a meal. It is a Norman Rockwell moment. In our positive associations to family dinner, myth and science come together. ...
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The Race to the Top of the Ladder
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Heather Thompson Day
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Romans 12:2, Matthew 11:28-30, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Galatians 1:10, Psalm 34:18
In today’s culture, it’s a race to the top of the ladder. According to Pew Research, millennials are the most educated generation. No one does comparison quite like millennials. We have apps for every...