About a month ago, Rob Bell, former pastor of Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, released a book called What We Talk About When We Talk About God. Since then, there have been quite a few reviews offering various critiques and overviews as well as treatises on Bell’s significance. This book hasn’t generated quite the firestorm his last
My Discipline Problem Even though I regularly write, think, and speak about faith and technology, that doesn’t mean I’m immune to the lure of “technology addiction.” Specifically, one area that I often struggle in properly disciplining is avoiding unnecessary email and social media checks when I’m home with my family. Sometimes when I pull out
After writing this, I made the same argument in a different format for Christianity Today, entitled Not Many of You Should Presume to Be Bloggers: How Social Media Changed Theological Debate. The commenters seemed to agree with the post by attempting to enact its main point. Same Story, Different Teams This weekend, we had our
The Best 2 Hours of the Day During a normal work week, I get home around 5:30 and I put my son down for bed around 7:30. That means I have a maximum of 2 hours per day to foster one of the most important relationships I have. It also means that I have a
When the iPhone came out a few years ago, I remember seeing a few people pull them out during church, and I would always lean in to get a glimpse of the mythically powerful device (see Modern Family for a hilarious take on iPad hype). Well, today I was that guy with the fancy device
A small group of young, social media drenched Jews called Reboot is garnering attention from NYTimes and CNN for creating the Sabbath Manifesto, a project with the goal of taking back the Sabbath. Here’s their explanation: Way back when, God said, “On the seventh day thou shalt rest.” The meaning behind it was simple: Take a
Adventures in Coffee Roasting Five or six years ago, I was a textbook Mountain-Dew-fueled web developer who didn’t really like coffee. But coffee was quickly turning into a social standard, and I realized needed to start developing a tolerance. So I drove over to Starbucks and ordered up a cup of regular coffee. Sadly, it
The following is a guest post by Rhett Smith in a series called Media Ecology Experiments in which we encourage each other to use technology creatively and differently so that we can better understand how it shapes our world. I used to love field day back in grade school, especially the running events. Whether it
