https://youtu.be/ZTuHf409syw When you stand in front of a funhouse mirror, your image in distorted in some bizarre and unusual way. Whether you get huge legs or a giant head, you know a funhouse mirror is not meant to give you a true reflection of yourself the way a normal mirror does. But what happens when … Continue reading SA-6: Distorted Beyond the Funhouse Mirror
Category: Breaking The Digital Spell
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SA-5: Stepping on the Glass of Broken Echo Chambers
https://youtu.be/8842EvXCkOY Political polarization and tribalism are on the rise, and social media appears to be the chief culprit. The ability to customize our social media feeds to only hear the voices we want to hear has lead us into echo chambers of increasingly one-sided viewpoints and unchecked misinformation - at least, that's what cultural wisdom … Continue reading SA-5: Stepping on the Glass of Broken Echo Chambers
SA-4: Should Christians Leave Social Media? A Conversation About Digital Babylon
https://youtu.be/4LT7ULycsYM The Bible gives us a framework for understanding and navigating a world dominated by social media: Christians are to live as faithfully obedient exiles in the midst of Digital Babylon. This is the claim we explored on the prior episode of Breaking the Digital Spell, and we ended the episode open to pushback or … Continue reading SA-4: Should Christians Leave Social Media? A Conversation About Digital Babylon
SA-2: On Students and Brett McCracken’s “The Wisdom Pyramid”
Media literacy is the biggest gaping hole in our discipleship. We can feel its effects in our churches and our lives in the same way we can feel the effects of poor financial stewardship or failing marriages in our churches. Plenty of courses and programs exist for churches to address financial literacy and building healthy … Continue reading SA-2: On Students and Brett McCracken’s “The Wisdom Pyramid”
SA-1: The Asterisk Year (w/Manuscript)
When 2020 began, none of us factored in the possibility of a pandemic being the defining reality of our year. Our plans and predictions for the world were thrown into chaos, and our sense of "normal" upended overnight as we embraced a strong sense of uncertainty about our future. But how "normal" was our pre-pandemic … Continue reading SA-1: The Asterisk Year (w/Manuscript)
Guest Post: Watch Yourself
We live in the age of the selfie. We now have the tools to take photos of ourselves looking our best in an attempt to exalt ourselves in the eyes of our friends and family. How do we exalt Christ when it is so easy to exalt ourselves?
…Is To Break The Spell (Episode Manuscript)
We were made for the life beyond the screen.
Conclusions, Part Two (Episode Manuscript)
Living in a distracted, digital age has consequences.
A Tale Of Two Realities (Episode Manuscript)
Extended reality technology is powerful. Almost too powerful.
The Useful Distraction of Smartphones (Episode Manuscript)
Smartphones are incredibly useful - and incredibly distracting.
That Gravley Guy 