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WritingTechnologyZak Mellgren

Protecting Our Humanity with... Robots?

I know my writing is human because a robot told me so.

TechnologyChristian Sanchez

Science and the Limits of the Possible

“Do not aspire to immortal life, O my soul; but exhaust the limits of the possible.” Pindar (Pyth. III.61–62)

Christopher JonesTechnology

American Evangelicals Long for the Embrace of the Machine God

No computer program can determine truth. But the authoritative-sounding voice and the ability to get an answer to any question that statistically feels right, even if it’s wrong, are beguiling.

TechnologyFormationHayden Nesbit

Saying 'Here I Am' in the Digital Age

We must pray for hearts that desire not a fragile, fleeting sense of self that must be recreated each day while we await validation via notifications, but one that longs to join the mission of the Triune God to bring flourishing to every good and beautiful place including where you are.

TechnologyFormationRobert Ordway

Screwtape is Hiding in Your Pocket

Screwtape Is hiding in plain sight.

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?

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.

Brad LittlejohnTechnology

One Tool to Rule Them All

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

TechnologyChristine AgarwalFormation

They Learn Everything Except the Art of Learning

What do we do to avoid becoming people who want all the ease, speed, and information without any of the work to get it?

TechnologyCharles Carman

On Not Having A Smart Phone

One thing I have found more recently in not having a smart phone is this: there is a muscle group I've had to exercise which would have atrophied had I accepted the smart phone as critical for one's existence.

Hayden NesbitTechnologyFormation

Connecting in an Age of Competition

Our very mode of life cuts our attempts at connecting off at the knees. In a digital age, our default posture is one of performance. If we are to move toward connection, we must relearn the purpose and art of conversation.