Technology, like “art,” is not a terribly easy word to define. It turns out that some philosophers have already done a decent job of parceling out categories, and I think they are helpful enough to list them out here. These definitions come from Stephen J. Kline’s 1985 article “What is Technology” found in the Bulletin
Yearly Archive:: 2009
Merry Christmas: Please Choose a Free Book
I love books. I love them so much that I even created a site (www.bestcommentaries.com) to help people find good resources for Biblical studies. A cool part of that site is that affiliate links bring in some gift certificate money from www.wtsbooks.com. To celebrate God’s gift of his one and only Son to us all, I’d like
Is Online Ministry ‘Incarnational’?
Shane Hipps is Coming to My Conference: The Electronic Gospel
Just kidding. It’s the other way around. Dallas Theological Seminary‘s Center for Christian Leadership is hosting Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels (my review), for a one day conference in Dallas called The Electronic Gospel: How Technology Shapes Our Faith on February 8th, 2010. Here’s the official description: A conference about engaging technology with discernment,
NT Wright on Blogging & Social Media
From Bill Kinnon: This is NT Wright’s response to my question on his opinion of blogging during Imbi Medri-Kinnon’s interview shoot with the Bishop of Durham in 2007. Portions of this interview appear in her documentary, Mind the Gap – where she looks at the challenge for church leadership in the 21st Century. I appreciated
Every Reference to Technology in the Scriptures
Four Questions for Technology from the Biblical Story
A few months ago, in a post called From the Garden to the City, I briefly mentioned four aspects of technology that show up in the redemptive narrative of Scripture, and I’ve presented it at a few conferences. Drew Goodmanson recently asked if anyone had something like it, so I’m pulling a section from my
A Meaningful Distraction: The Beeper that Wouldn’t Stop
In the course of studying the nature of technology, I am often faced with the negative side of our tools. So, for this blog’s first birthday (happy birthday, blog!), I thought I’d share a story of someone using a technology in novel way to deeply and redemptively enter the lives of those around him. The
SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World by Douglas Estes (Review)
As an aside, I’ve just added a Books & Resources section that has a brief bibliography of books that address technology and faith. Recently, Douglas Estes posted on CT’s Out of Ur, Cynthia Ware’s Digital Sanctuary, and a few other blogs, giving a preview of the issues he covers in his new book SimChurch: Being the Church
The Church of Facebook: How the Hyperconnected Are Redefining Community (Review)
Jesse Rice is a former worship arts director from California, and he’s just released one of the first books that directly addresses Christian community and identity in the social networking age. Rice is a great story teller, and he uses his skill to make several scientific, psychological, and architectural experiments into fun-to-read vignettes that he eventually uses to illustrate
