Category: Technology
Resisting the Rhetoric of Technological Inevitability
Articles about technology often come with a snappy, provocative question for a title. Take, for example, two of the most widely discussed tech articles in recent memory, both of which appeared in The Atlantic: Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us...
What Social Networks Do–And Don’t Do–for Churches
Back in December, I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable for Christianity Today about the prospects and limits of social networking for churches. Here’s my opening: The benefits of social networking are many but require judicious and...
The Chaos Curve: Writers’ Block and the Ever-Writing Woman
I’m beginning to realize that the writers’ block I struggle with comes, not from a lack of ideas, but from being absolutely tired of my own output. Modern life, or at least my modern life, seems to require a constant...
The World and Everything in It: Facebook Timeline
That’s the name of the radio news show that our friends at World Magazine launched a few months back. Spearheaded by publisher Nick Eicher and his golden voice, it’s probably the closest thing to NPR by a distinctly Christian outlet...
Digging Down to the Substance of Things
Trevin thinks that when it comes down to it, the curiosity of the blogger makes the blog: The best blogs are a combination of the two. The blogger has a curious nature, and this curiosity manifests itself naturally in his...
Top Posts for June and July
Here are the top 10 posts from the past two months at Mere-O: I unpacked the music of Terence Malick’s beautiful Tree of Life and how it should affect our understanding of it. I examined parents who allow their children to have sex...
Blogging as Letters to our Future
Alissa Wilkinson: So maybe we can think of blogs—at least the good ones, and maybe even ones like these—as letters, if not to friends, to everyone, to the future: here is who we are, as it unfolded in real time;...
Self-Quantification and the End of Wisdom
photo © 2008 Porter Novelli Global | more info (via: Wylio) Self-quantification has a strong allure precisely because it combines two deeply rooted promises of American culture: that we will achieve technological mastery over every part of our existence, and...
The Meaning of Mediation
John Dyer is continuing the conversation about mediation, and doing it in classic Dyer style–thorough and sensitive: One way of distinguishing between a cultural good and a medium is to say that a cultural good mediates meaning between a community and an...
The Next Story: A Review
Note: Eric Eekhoff is a reader of Mere-O. When he was a member of the Christian blogging community, he established himself as one of the most thoughtful observers of the intersection between theology and technology. I invited Eric to write...