Crash, Bang! In case you missed it, there were some storms last week. First there was a tornado. Then John Piper offered an interpretation of the tornado and a bigger storm hit. In a mere 24 hours, there were hundreds … Continue reading
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There has been quite a bit of recent discussion asking how “real” Internet community is. However, for me, it’s more helpful to ask, “What kind of community is the Internet distinctly good at creating?” One answer is that the Internet … Continue reading
Better Off (2005, Harper Perennial) is probably the most clever title of any technology book I’ve read. The book is Eric Brende’s retelling of his 18 months living with a lo-tech Mennonite-like community as part of his graduate work in … Continue reading
Whenever new church models, technologies, and techniques come along there are some who embrace them and some who question them. For me, it has been interesting to see how some of the questions about the “new” are equally valid to … Continue reading
In the last post, we introduced McLuhan’s Four Laws of Media as a tool for understanding how technology affects us. This time we’ll look at the questions Andy Crouch has developed in his book Culture Making. He suggests that we … Continue reading
The first question we usually ask about technology is “How can this technology be used?” However, as stewards of creation the deeper questions that we should first ask are, “What does it mean to use this technology?” and “How will … Continue reading
