Tony Reinke, author of 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You (see my review) and Competing Spectacles (read my five takeaways), just released his newest book God, Technology, and the Christian Life—his biblical theology of technology. I really enjoy reading Reinke on technology and had been eager to get my hands on this book since I […]
Technology
Why Neil Postman Thinks We Should Ban All Political Commercials from TV
Television is drastically changing our epistemology–that is to say that TV changes the way we formulate what we believe–at least according to Neil Postman, the author of the 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Television, like any medium, has unintended consequences. One of the unintended consequences of […]
Tim Challies on Technology and Faith
Last year I read (and really enjoyed) the book The Next Story: Life and Faith After The Digital Explosion by Tim Challies. In The Next Story, popular Christian blogger Tim Challies describes the effects technology is having on every area of life and faith (for better or for worse). Technology often advertises the amazing benefits of worldwide connectivity, […]
The Two Secret Weapons that Help Me Read Faster with Greater Retention
Do you remember what secret weapon the characters in the movie The Sandlot used to finally get the Babe Ruth autographed baseball back from the monster dog across the fence? It wasn’t constructing a ramp and remote control car out of an erector set and it wasn’t strapping a harness on Yeah-Yeah and lowering him […]
10 Tips to Boost Your Prayer Life with Your Smartphone (+ The Best Prayer Apps)
Smartphones have forever changed the way we live. With smartphones, we can communicate, produce, learn and do business like we never imagined possible. As with all technology, benefits come many unintended consequences. Smartphones can cause a shorter attention span, people to live life through a screen, addiction, and constant distraction. They can also hinder us […]