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John SheltonTechnologySexuality

Talking About Sex in a Pornographic Culture

Even naming the evils of our age in the areas of sex and gender is made complex today because of how awash we are in the pornographic.

Luke BrakeTechnology

Amalgamated Desires

Within the broader regime of cyborg theocracy, TikTok's function is often to reduce its users down to a kind of meat-puppet.

Jake MeadorTechnologyGender

Bad Readers and Their Twitter Swarms

Sheila Gregoire's attack on Nancy Pearcey is the latest example of how post-evangelical and Christian nationalist online styles are eerily similar.

Jake MeadorTechnologyPolitical Theology

The Limits of Willpower

A bare proceduralist political project will not be sufficient in an era that, through technology, makes destructive vices so readily accessible.

Jake MeadorTechnology

Phone-Free Churches?

Should churches attempt to ban or limit smartphones in public worship?

Jon AskonasTechnology

Piety, Technology, and Tradition

We need to build rather than conserve not because this moment is 'difficult' in a generalized sense, but because technology has dissolved our traditions.

Matthew Sheddentrivial linkTechnology

A Trivial link: 2021 #2 - Trivial

I’ve sent this essay to a couple friends this week because it captures so well the project I care about. Increasingly our world is being pulled into thinking in abstractions. But how do we keep drawing ourselves into the “25-foot […]

Matthew Sheddentrivial linkTechnology

A Trivial link: 2021 #2 - Trivial

I’ve sent this essay to a couple friends this week because it captures so well the project I care about. Increasingly our world is being pulled into thinking in abstractions. But how do we keep drawing ourselves into the “25-foot […]

Matthew SheddenTechnology

A Trivial Link - Trivial

Given the events of the week (or any given week in America), many people are talking to their kids about politics or asking how much they should discuss politics together. One thing I have learned as a pastor is people […]

Matthew SheddenReadingTechnology

Limitation - Trivial

One resistance to the technological age I tried to practice recently is avoiding books from authors with active social media presences. Obviously, I have exceptions to this rule, but it seems good writers are struggling to get book contracts without […]

Chris KrychoTechnologyWriting

32 Theses (and several more words) on Podcasting

This American Life is a great podcast. But it's an example of good podcasting, not the standard for judging all podcasts.

Jake MeadorTechnologySexualityTinder

On Tinder and Why It's OK to Commodify Sex

The Vanity Fair piece on Tinder and the end of dating has rightly alarmed many readers, but not always for the right reasons.