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Joshua Pauling is headmaster at All Saints Classical Academy and vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Charlotte, NC. He is author of Education's End, and co-author with Robin Phillips of Are We All Cyborgs Now? Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine. He has written for Front Porch Republic, LOGIA: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, Modern Reformation, Public Discourse, Quillette, Touchstone, and is a frequent guest on the Issues, Etc. podcast.
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Joshua Pauling is headmaster at All Saints Classical Academy and vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Charlotte, NC. He is author of Education's End, and co-author with Robin Phillips of Are We All Cyborgs Now? Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine. He has written for Front Porch Republic, LOGIA: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, Modern Reformation, Public Discourse, Quillette, Touchstone, and is a frequent guest on the Issues, Etc. podcast.
Josh PaulingTechnologyChurch
As liquid modernity is increasingly vaporized, Christian communities have the opportunity to be one of the last holdouts against technological fakery.
Josh PaulingTheologyTechnology
We need a positive account of personhood and not merely a humanity of the gaps if we are to retain our humanity in the coming technological era.
Josh PaulingBook Reviews
Peco Gaskovski's 'Exogenesis' is a disturbing meditation on the intersection of fertility and our machine age.
Josh PaulingTechnology
We have reached terminal velocity for information—and the results are that our own sense of the material and our own finitude has been eroded and weakened.
Josh PaulingBible
Jonathan Linebaugh's new book not only offers readers new ways of looking at the work of St Paul, it is also elegant, artful Biblical scholarship.
Josh PaulingFeaturedCulture
Lewis Mumford wrote in his 1934 classic Technics and Civilization that “the clock, not the steam-engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age.” Due to the mechanical clock, “time-keeping passed into time-serving and time-accounting and time-rationing.” Mumford explains […]
Josh PaulingFeaturedEconomics and Business
COVID-19 uncertainties provide a cultural moment for re-evaluating what really constitutes the good life. While the mandatory homecoming of sorts drags on, it sheds fresh and favorable light on home economies of simplicity and some measure of self-sufficiency. Stay-at-home orders […]
Josh PaulingFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism
In countless churches across America’s denominational landscape, contemporary worship practices have won the day in the name of cultural relevance and stylistic preference. But inherent in contemporary worship is a dangerous dichotomy of style and substance that if not remedied, […]
