Books behind the show

Paul Hoffman joined the show to talk about AI Shepherds and Electric Sheep.

Samuel D. James joined the show to talk about Digital Liturgies.

A clear-eyed look at what the smartphone is doing to attention, presence, and the heart.

Derek Schuurman joined the show to talk about A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers.

How a culture conducts its public business through entertainment, and what the medium does to the message.

Joseph Minich joined the show to talk about Bulwarks of Unbelief.

Recovering our creative calling: not merely critiquing or consuming culture but making it, living out the cultural mandate to cultivate and create.

Connecting your work to God's work, vocation, idolatry, and the dignity of ordinary labor.

Jason Thacker joined the show to talk about Following Jesus in a Digital Age.

A new look at the seven deadly sins and their remedies, each vice a distorted desire for something God made good.

Everyday family rhythms, from mealtimes and bedtimes to screens, as the ordinary places where children are formed.

Our free eBook: the top 40 episodes of the podcast, transcribed and summarized with the help of AI. Most of it now lives on this website.

Jay Y. Kim joined the show to talk about Listen, Listen, Speak.

How 1776 created the post-Christian West: the year the West became Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic, ex-Christian, and romantic all at once.

The surrender of culture to technology, when efficiency becomes the only question worth asking.

The real cost of social media, how the feed disciples us, and how to use it without being used.

On conditioning, nature, and what we lose when man's conquest of nature becomes nature's conquest of man.

Artificial intelligence and the future of humanity, dignity, image-bearing, and Christian ethics for thinking machines.

Dave Betts joined the show to talk about The Church and AI.

Gospel-humility that stops measuring the self, the one thing that breaks the cycle of pride and shame.

Reclaiming relationship in a technological world, persons over devices, recognition over the impersonal.

Ten commitments for putting technology in its proper place, so the household forms people, not the other way around.

The classic critique of “technique”, the relentless logic of efficiency that reshapes every domain of life.

Our deepest desires point past every earthly object to the God who made us for himself.

Alan Noble works through seven virtues (prudence, justice, courage, temperance, faith, hope and love) as practical wisdom for living through chaotic times.

How big-data algorithms scale hidden bias into high-stakes decisions about parole, loans, hiring, and more.

Jake Meador joined the show to talk about What Are Christians For?.

Chris Martin joined the show to talk about Wolf in Their Pockets.

Jeffrey Bilbro joined the show to talk about Words for Conviviality.

Glenn Butner joined the show to talk about Work Out Your Salvation.

The spiritual power of habit, we are shaped less by what we think and more by what we love and repeat.

Karen Swallow Prior on vocation and the question of what a life is for, recovering a Christian vision of calling beyond career.

Kelly Kapic joined the show to talk about You Were Never Meant to Do It All.

How your limits are good news, finitude as a gift of creation rather than a problem to engineer away.