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A Warning Against the All-Encompassing Power of Technology
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Marva J. Dawn
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- Technology
- Dangers of Technology
Fifty years ago French sociologist/theologian Jacques Ellul warned that technology, in spite of its many lauded gifts, also presented great dangers. Its most important threat was its development into ...
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Faith and Technology
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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- Technology
- Trouble
What does it look like to trust in God? And how does trusting in God relate to all of the modern technologies that currently exist. We know, quite well, that for some quite close to us, technology is ...
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Walter J. Ong
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Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness, and never more than when they affect the word.
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Locard’s Exchange Principle
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Have you ever heard of the forensic science theory known as Locard’s Exchange Principle? Named after the "Sherlock Holmes of France," the French criminologist Emile Locard, this theory sugge...
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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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Room Re-Design
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Andy Crouch
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Find the room where your family spends the most time and ruthlessly eliminate the things that ask little of you and develop little in you. Move the TV to a less central location—and ideally a less com...
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The Uniqueness of Conversation (And why Technology Can’t Replace In-Person Communication)
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Megan Garber
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Genesis 1:31, Psalm 19:1, Proverbs 18:4, Isaiah 55:11, John 1:3, Romans 1:20
In an interview with MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle, Megan Garber asks what makes in-person conversation unique, compared to all the other ways we communicate these days: Conversations, as they tend...
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Jay Y. Kim
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This is the ultimate paradox of the digital age: at the moment in human history when technology allows us to be more connected than ever, we are so very far apart, to the point that our very understan...
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How Strangers Become Friends
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John M. Perkins
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Romans 12:10, John 15:13, Proverbs 18:24, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, Proverbs 27:17
There’s been a lot of talk about friendship because of Facebook and the internet. You can collect friends and “likes” and begin to feel pretty good about yourself, depending on how many you accumulate...
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Almighty God, during this tumultuous
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Austin D. Hill
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Almighty God, during this tumultuous time, we see so clearly our frailty and powerlessness. Any illusions of strength and grandeur have been stripped away. We are utterly dependent upon you. Even with...
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We have been created by God, to be
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Jacob Traeger
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We have been created by God, to be loved by God, and to receive our identity from God. But in our everyday lives, as we go about our work, school, interacting with our family and friends, we don’t alw...
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Anxiety Rising in the West
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J. P. Moreland
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I am among those who do not believe that “the percentage of people who have anxiety has always held pretty constant; rather, it’s just that today we’re more open to speaking about it.” No, I am convin...
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Jay Y. Kim
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The digital age is about getting what we want, when we want, how we want, and as much (or as little) as we want.
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Technology's impact on our Minds
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Ruth Haley Barton
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Exodus 20:8-11, 1 Kings 19:11-13, Ecclesiastes 2:22-23 , Luke 10:38-42 , Romans 12:2 , Psalm 46:10
As we become more intentional about living according to our deepest desires, it becomes increasingly important to notice the effects of technology on our mind, our soul and our relationships. The ...
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The Sacred Alters of Modern Life
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A. J. Swoboda
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Our 24/7 culture conveniently provides every good and service we want, when we want, how we want. Our time – saving devices, technological conveniences, and cheap mobility have seemingly made life muc...
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William Orton
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What use could this company make of an electrical toy? *President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, in 1876, rejecting an opportunity to purchase Alexander Graham Bell’s patent on the telephone
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George Bernard Shaw
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Philippians 3:13-14, Matthew 11:12, Galatians 1:10, Daniel 3:18, 1 Corinthians 1:27, Acts 17:6
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Innovation or Heresy
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Ecclesiastes 7:10, Colossians 2:8, Matthew 9:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Romans 12:2, Mark 7:8-9, Isaiah 43:19
It’s funny how sometimes members of the church can associate anything new with “heresy.” We often make the mistake of confusing technological innovations or scientific discoveries for changes to the g...
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Alan Moore
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- Progress
- Technology
“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”
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Judith Shulevitz
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People began to learn, first from the telegraph, then from radio, newsreels, television, and the Internet, that what was happening now, all over the globe, mattered more than what was happening here.
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Creating Christian Consumers
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Jay Y. Kim
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1 Corinthians 1:22-25, Romans 12:2, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, Isaiah 55:8-8, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
I’ve served on staff at a few different churches throughout Silicon Valley for the last decade and a half, including a medium-sized church, a young church plant, and a multisite megachurch. At each, w...
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Forever Elsewhere
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Sherry Turkle
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James 1:25, Mark 4:19, Hebrews 2:1, Isaiah 55:2-3, Ecclesiastes 5:1
We say we turn to our phones when we’re “bored.” And we often find ourselves bored because we have become accustomed to a constant feed of connection, information, and entertainment. We are forever el...
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Byung-Chul Han
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They are too alive to die, and too dead to live.
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The Great Scourge of Modern Communication
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Dan Allender
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Psalm 19:14, Matthew 12:36, Proverbs 15:28, Proverbs 12:18, Colossians 4:6
E-mail is the great scourge of modem communication. It facilitates the passing on of simple information, yet it forces complex matters to be presented In a fashion that makes what is difficult appear ...
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I Forgot My Phone
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Below is the description of this short video, posted on youtube, click the link below the description to watch: Imagine a day when a young woman’s daily routine unfolds normally, with one exception: ...
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G. K. Chesterton
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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Matt Chandler
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No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
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Our Brains on the Internet
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Nicholas G. Carr
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Sometime in 2007, a serpent of doubt slithered into my info paradise. I began to notice that the Net was exerting a much stronger and broader influence over me than my old stand-alone PC ever had. It ...
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Guessing Your Age
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Max Lucado
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Max Lucado shares a funny story about a phone app that was supposed to be able to guess your age. It worked by taking a picture of a person’s face and then spitting out a supposedly accurate result. L...
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Never Leaving Their Work
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A. J. Swoboda
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Because of the modern rhythms of work that are mediated through personal computers and phones, people, in the words of one cultural commentator, “leave the office, but they do not leave their work. Th...