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TechnologyFormationRobert Ordway

Screwtape is Hiding in Your Pocket

Screwtape Is hiding in plain sight.

Jake MeadorCulture

Ross Douthat and the Future of Digital Media

Everyone (ultimately) loses when columnists are remade into media personalities.

John EhrettTechnologyCulture

PowerWash Simulator and the Yearning to Work

What does it say about us, our nation, and our economy that over 17 million people now spend hours playing a simulator in which they do decent blue collar work?

Nadya WilliamsCulture

The Great Books for You and for Me

What is interesting about left-coded arguments for the Great Books is that they often sound exactly like right-coded arguments for the Great Books.

Emily McArthurBibleBook ReviewsTheology

Snakes, Gods, and Heroes: Greek Myth in Acts 27-28

Sophocles cannot rectify the tragic suffering of his hero without imagining a savior who momentarily intervenes.

Austin GravleyTechnologyChurch

How a Google Voice Number Transformed My Youth Ministry

My students can ask an AI their theological questions. But while I cannot compete with the speed and thoroughness of a machine, a machine can't compete with the fact that I am human and it is not.

Andrew NobleTechnology

How AI Calculators Become Our Companions

The advice to "use AI like a tool, not a person," is insufficient. The very nature of the product is personal because the medium is personified. And as the latest friendship statistics keep repeating: we live in a lonely age. It's not enough to tame this desire with suppression.

Ralph Wood

Remembering Chip Conyers, a Protestant Saint

Chip Conyers embodied—like none other whom I’ve ever known—the central Christian belief that we are already living in the New Age, that the Kingdom of God is not an idealistic hope to be realized in some far-off time but a present reality.

Joseph Whitenton

Faith Comes by Hearing: On the Word of God, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Public Worship

What happens to our ears goes down deep into our hearts. And the Church yearns for this humble reception of her Lord. This is her very Life. That’s why it’s so important to fix your sound problems.

Patrick SchreinerBook Reviews

What the Four Senses of Scripture Are, and What They Are Not

The four senses remind us that Scripture was never meant to be read merely as an ancient text to be analyzed. It is God's Word that reveals Christ, forms disciples, and directs our hope toward the coming kingdom.

Joshua HeavinThe HeronBook ReviewsTheology

The Heron #2: Forthcoming Theology Books

Featuring books from Malcolm Guite, Michael C. Legaspi, Matthew Emerson, and Alexander Pierce amongst others

Brad LittlejohnTechnology

One Tool to Rule Them All

“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.” –Henry David Thoreau, Walden