Tech Revolution, Choice, and Life Together with Jake Meador
What were the similarities in the last two technological revolutions? How might this affect us in our current age? And how do we make disciples? In this episode, we chat with Jake Meador, the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy, an online magazine covering the Christian faith in the public sphere. Jake wrote What Are Christians For?, which led to some of our questions, while others (especially related to futurism and C.S. Lewis) were more curiosity-based. We hope you enjoy this episode!
0:00 - Intro
3:30 - Speed Round Questions
7:30 - The Discipleship Gap
11:30 - Similarities In The Industrial And Sexual Revolutions
17:10 - How The Digital Revolution's Placates Analysis Paralysis
22:57 - Could We Have Gone Through The Revolutions More Faithfully?
28:55 - But Won't Future Technology Correct Our Current Problems?
33:02 - Take Advantage of Tech With Mere Orthodoxy?
37:55 - Growing Embodied Communities
44:31 - A Tech Futurist Hypothetical
47:29 - Read C.S. Lewis' Space Triology! Here's why.
Books:
- What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World by Jake Meador
- In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World by Jake Meador
- The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality by Glen Scrivener
- A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ by John Andrew Bryant
- The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
Please send us your ideas and feedback to Joel Jacob and Andrew Noble at whatwouldjesustech@gmail.com. Recorded in Ontario, Canada, a hotel in Japan, and a public space in Lincoln, Nebraska. Original Music by Abigail Neale.
