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Chatbots, agents, and the image of God in an age of thinking machines. What does it mean to be human when the machine can talk back?
Attention, formation, and the algorithmic feed. How the platforms shape us, and how to use them as Jesus would.
Bodies, presence, and the incarnation in a virtual world. What we lose when gathering goes digital.
Money as a technology, from fiat to Bitcoin, read through the parable of the talents, generosity, and gospel patronage.
Sabbath, finitude, and attention in a world engineered to keep you scrolling. Rest as resistance and as worship.
Why our tools are built to fragment us, and how to reclaim attention as the substance of love.
Scripture from scroll to app. What changes when the Word moves to a screen, with John Dyer and the digital doorposts.
Podcasts as parasocial friends, dating apps, and the loneliness epidemic. Real presence in a mediated age.
Play, formation, and worlds we inhabit. What games train us to love.
Humanoid robots, labor, and what it means to be a made-maker with hands.
Thermostats, sensors, and the hearth. When optimizing the home quietly reshapes the life inside it.
Following Jesus when the tools are always on. Formation, habit, and the long obedience of digital life.
Showing up, staying put, and bearing witness in a particular place. What it means to be present rather than merely connected.
Engineering, calling, and the cultural mandate. How then shall we build, and for whom?
Hacks, data, and stewardship of what is not ours. Wisdom and prudence in a leaky world.
Author of The Tech-Wise Family and Culture Making, on keeping technology in its proper place within family and formation.
Late pastor of Redeemer NYC, who preached on work, idolatry, and the gospel for life in the city.
Author of Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man, on desire, imagination, and the making of modern man.
Theologian and biblical commentator, a recurring clip voice on anthropology and technology.
Media theorist behind Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly. He warned that every medium quietly reshapes the kind of thinking a culture is capable of.
Dutch Reformed theologian whose work on creation and image-bearing frames a whole Christian view of the world.
Author of From the Garden to the City and a Bible-software developer, writing on the theology of the tools we build.
Founder and CEO of Meta, betting the company on the metaverse and the social graph that connects it.
Theologian and author of You're Only Human. He argues that our limits are a gift of creation, not a flaw to be engineered away.
Author of 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You and God, Technology, and the Christian Life. He examines how everyday devices reshape our habits of attention and prayer.
Ethicist and author on AI and digital ethics.
Author of Terms of Service, a social-media analyst on the wolf in the feed.
Pastor and author, on joy, work, and worship.
Bible teacher and author, on Scripture and the limits of self.
French thinker and author of The Technological Society. He argued that technique becomes a self-justifying force, bending every human end toward efficiency.
Futurist and prophet of the singularity, who expects technology to merge with and outrun human biology.
Philosopher and author of You Are What You Love. He reads our daily habits as liturgies that train what we ultimately desire.
Entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX, X, and Neuralink, forever pushing the outer edge of what technology is allowed to attempt.
Theosis or self-deification? Uploading, longevity, and the dream of escaping our limits, read against the hope of resurrection.
Predictions, hype cycles, and reading the road ahead with sober hope rather than fear or FOMO.
Caring for creation as part of the cultural mandate, where prevention beats cure and profit can serve the kingdom.
Raising kids in a digital age: tool tech versus drool tech, hedges not walls, and formation through inevitable mistakes.
Every medium has a message. How the form of our tools, from the codex to the feed, reshapes what we can think and love.
When our tools become our trust. Reading Psalm 115 and the golden calf into an age of screens and algorithms.
Pastoring, gathering, and ministry tools in a connected age. What belongs to the local body, and what a tool can never replace.
Pastor of a small church near Jane and Finch in Toronto and a TGC Canada writer; a self-described "average pastor" on where AI actually meets the work of ministry.
Canadian apologist whose viral history of technology and Christianity prompted the show's case for a tech-savvy faith.
A voice from the Christian technology community on finding your calling and place in the faith-and-tech world.
Director of The Gospel Coalition Canada; a recurring voice on theology, AI, and Christian conscience.
Developer and PKM enthusiast; networked thinking with Roam for pastors and learners.
CEO of PulpitAI; extending sermons with AI under local-church accountability.
Author of Digital Liturgies; how the internet forms our loves and imagination.
Writer on discipleship, deconstruction, and stewarding your story online.
Engineer behind Bible Project reading tools; offering first fruits in Bible tech.
Editor of Mere Orthodoxy; on choice, limits, and embodied life together.
Author of Bulwarks of Unbelief; why technoculture makes God feel absent.
Pastor and author of Analog Church and Listen, Listen, Speak.
Technologist building ethics into AI; innovation as stewardship in Canada.
Environmental entrepreneur; prevention, stewardship, and the cultural mandate.
Thomist exploring whether AI can think, feel, or have a soul.
Builder of Faith Tools, a directory of Christian apps for the church.
Writer and podcaster on faith and technology; host of Christianity Tomorrow.
Theologian asking how rule-of-life practices and technology catechize us.
Computer scientist and author of Shaping a Digital World; engineering as Christian vocation.
Founder of Gospel Tech; helping families disciple through their devices.
Author of The Lord of the Rings and the essay On Fairy-Stories; on sub-creation, the longing fantasy awakens, and the imagination as a window onto a better world.
Author of You Are Not Your Own; on rest, identity, and a frantic world.
Social psychologist; The Anxious Generation and the phone-based childhood.
Philosopher of A Secular Age; the buffered self and the immanent frame.
Theologian of the body and the emotions; on dopamine, desire, and formation.
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; a central figure in the AI era and its gospel of progress.
Media theorist who taught that the medium is the message; patron of media ecology.
Early church theologian; on restless hearts, rightly ordered loves, and the City of God.
Medieval theologian; natural law, the soul, and the Thomist account of personhood.
Reformer of Geneva; on providence, the knowledge of God and self, and the heart as an idol factory.
Former slave trader turned Anglican pastor and hymn writer; a model of pastoral letters and grace in correspondence.
Ancient Greek philosopher; in the Phaedrus, the worry that a new medium (writing) reshapes memory and the soul.
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; his essay Machines of Loving Grace makes the optimistic case for an AI future.
Agrarian essayist and poet; on place, membership, limits, and the true cost of machines.
MIT psychologist; Alone Together and Reclaiming Conversation, on tech and intimacy.
Author of The Shallows; how the internet reshapes attention and the reading mind.
Pastor and Samford professor; co-author of AI Shepherds and Electric Sheep.
Author and literary scholar; On Reading Well, The Evangelical Imagination, You Have a Calling.
Christian engineer and AI entrepreneur; on actually learning and building AI.
Pastor; a sober Christian evaluation of the psychedelic revival and Christian mysticism.
Researcher at The Gospel Coalition; benchmarking AI models for Christian use.
On calling the next generation to build for God's glory rather than the metrics.
Scholar of digital theology; co-author of work on AI Bible apps and theological bias.
Biblical scholar; on AI, hermeneutics, and the interpretation of Scripture.
FaithTech voice on the faith-and-technology landscape; disruption is not discipleship.
Journalist and editor; on AI chatbots, companionship, and what is real in a machine.
Pastor and author of Radical; host of the Radical podcast, where Piper returned to the AI question.
New Testament scholar and TGC co-founder; the voice ChatGPT was asked to imitate in the prayer that started the debate.
Writer of The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life; a recurring read whose questions about what our tools ask of us shape the show's media ecology.
Tech entrepreneur behind the Blueprint and Don't Die project, who treats death as a problem to be engineered away rather than a limit to be received.
Head-worn displays and the bet that computing belongs on your face. From the Vision Pro to Meta's Orion, when the screen stops being something you hold and starts being something you wear.
Literature scholar and Front Porch Republic editor; on attention, reading, and a convivial common life.
Theology professor; on technological literacy and the discipline of discernment.
Founder of the Davenant Institute; on technology policy and a positive vision for the family.
Technology-and-family policy fellow; on protecting childhood from the screen.
On building durable institutions, not just audiences, in digital ministry.
Theologian; on markets, moral formation, and working out our salvation.
Lead pastor; on making local, faithful digital content for a real congregation.
Lead elder at Trinity Church and author of The Church and AI; a “semi-Luddite” wary of the assumption that technology always moves up and to the right.
OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist; moved from “feel the AGI” enthusiasm toward concern about moving too fast.
Former Google design ethicist featured in The Social Dilemma; the brightest engineers, backed by billions, working to keep you hooked.
Director of resources at Reformed Youth Ministries and author of Social Media Pressure; two decades of student ministry.
Instagram creator and youth-ministry volunteer; on the ambient, invisible filters teenagers now perform behind.
Critic of industrial institutions; Tools for Conviviality distinguishes tools that equip human independence from systems that put people on fixed tracks.
Theologian and ethicist; “many people believe they have no story except the story they chose when they had no story.”
Psychologist and cultural commentator who gained traction by telling people they are responsible for their own lives.
Novelist and essayist; her account of “givenness” names what successive revolutions try to overcome.
Strasbourg reformer; the most important thing a deacon does is pay attention, which only presence over time makes possible.
Historian and theologian of expressive individualism; wrote the foreword to Joseph Minich’s Bulwarks of Unbelief.
Roman emperor and Stoic; his Meditations anchor the tech-world Stoicism revival the show reads as a hunger for providence.
Author and podcaster who popularized productivity and Stoic practice among startup founders.
Writer and former New Atheist who announced she had become a Christian; part of the cultural backdrop to the “tech leader converts” prediction.
Broadcaster and author of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God; chronicler of a turning cultural tide.
Archbishop and author of the Book of Common Prayer; “what the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.”
Missiologist; “the online is the new lobby”, digital can inform, but only the embodied room transforms.
Pastor whose driving question is what the internet would look like if all the Christians left.
Philosopher of technology; the device paradigm and focal practices, the distinction between transparent things and convenience-hiding devices.
Reformed theologian and ethicist; on imitating Christ and the Augustinian good still latent in corrupted things.
Canadian deep-learning pioneer, the “godfather of AI,” who left Google to warn about the technology’s risks.
Canadian deep-learning pioneer and a leading voice on AI safety; part of the legacy Canada could build an ethical AI identity on.
Pastor and martyr; his Ethics asks not merely whether our acts are right but whether we are good before God.
Dutch Reformed philosopher; creation is multi-aspectual, with many irreducible dimensions no single one (like data) can collapse into itself.
Reformed philosopher; even a garden spade should be delightful to hold, beauty as a creational norm rather than an add-on.
Dutch theologian and statesman; there is not one square inch of all creation over which Christ does not cry 'mine.'
Apologist who asked 'how then shall we live?', the question Christian engineering turns toward design.
Data scientist; Weapons of Math Destruction on how algorithms quietly amplify discrimination in parole, loans, and hiring.
Former campus minister who cooks on camera; food is both theology and technology, and bread was never simply 'natural.'
Theologian of food and creation; 'food is God's love made edible,' eating as gift rather than fuel.
Episcopal priest and food writer; The Supper of the Lamb on the goodness of creation tasted at the table.
Writer who argued in 1944 that clock time, more than any machine, set modern society apart from every age before it.
American polymath whose 'time is money' baptized the economic view of time the church largely absorbed.
Historian; 'the strange persistence of guilt,' a secular age that lost atonement but kept the need for it.
Pastor and author on hurry and formation; part of the slow counter-diet that drew Ian Harber back to embodied faith.
Author and former pastor; representative of the progressive media an engagement algorithm fed during deconstruction.
Contemplative author cited among the progressive voices an engagement algorithm can amplify.
Mathematician and Christian thinker; 'nothing is so insufferable as complete rest,' diversion as flight from emptiness.
Pastor and author who funded Tim Mackie and Jon Collins to make the Bible Project full time.
Bible scholar and co-founder of the Bible Project; artisanal explainer videos for every book of Scripture.
Co-founder of the Bible Project; helped turn a Portland side project into Scripture videos watched worldwide.
Sociologist who coined 'faithful presence' in To Change the World; cultural change comes through faithful presence within institutions, not power over them.
Generational psychologist; iGen traces how the smartphone reshaped adolescence, mental health, and the pace of growing up.
Author of Walden; a deliberate, simplified life and a wary eye on the machinery that promises progress.
Author and TGC editor; holding fast to Scripture while living wisely amid the technologies of a digital age.
Comedian and author of Modern Romance; a data-driven look at how dating apps reshaped courtship and choice.
Cognitive scientist and AI critic; argues large language models hit a wall of truthfulness and reliability, the technical case behind Andrew's 'what is truth?' question.
Journalist and author of The Power of Habit; the cue-routine-reward loop product teams build into apps by design.
Author of Hooked; the behavioral-design playbook for engineering habit-forming products, read here as the architecture of digital addiction.
Psychiatrist and author of The Brain That Changes Itself; neuroplasticity and how repeated digital habits physically reshape the brain.
Harvard scholar and author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism; how platforms monetize the self and erode the private backstage.
FaithTech volunteer and writer on Christian dating; on singleness, stigma, and treating a profile as a person rather than an option to swipe past.
Relationship therapist; modern dating asks one person to be everything we once distributed across community, family, and God.
Psychologist and co-author of Boundaries; on curiosity over screening, and not making every encounter carry the weight of a verdict.
Product designer and Christian in the tech industry; faithful presence is less a strategy than simply paying attention to the person in front of you.
Software developer; on the ethics question most consumer-tech companies never stop to ask, and working from rest rather than for it.
Founder of FaithTech; the exploitative / responsible / redemptive framework, lament in product design, and the digital Sabbath challenge.
Senior writer at The Gospel Coalition and co-author of Gospelbound; a theology of play, the gaming gender gap, and the idol diagnostic.
Psychologist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow; the System 1 / System 2 distinction algorithmic feeds are built to exploit.
Founder of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX; the cautionary figure of the 2022 crypto bust and effective-altruism gone wrong.
Science-fiction novelist who coined 'metaverse' in Snow Crash; the dystopian origin of a word Silicon Valley later adopted as a product roadmap.
Pastor and founder of 9Marks; on the gathered, embodied local church as something a metaverse campus cannot replicate.
Writer on work and calling; on receiving rest as a gift rather than earning it, and refusing to let productivity define worth.
Author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction; on attention, thinking in community, and resisting the outrage machine.
Physicist who coined 'the attention economy' in 1997; attention, not information, is the scarce resource platforms compete to capture.
Reformer whose recovery of vocation reframed all honest work as service to neighbor; the print revolution's first viral author.
Guest in conversation on transhumanism and the body; on the Christian hope of resurrection against the dream of escaping flesh.
Theologian who writes on technology and the church; on letting the gospel, not the platform, set the terms of Christian witness.
Canadian philosopher of technology; technology is never neutral but carries its own account of what is good and worth wanting.
PhD, Theology & Tech, Nottingham. Co-host of What Would Jesus Tech.
Principal PM, Splunk. Co-host of What Would Jesus Tech.
Pastor · fmr. Socials at TGC. Co-host of What Would Jesus Tech.
Ten commitments for putting technology in its proper place, so the household forms people, not the other way around.
Recovering our creative calling: not merely critiquing or consuming culture but making it, living out the cultural mandate to cultivate and create.
Reclaiming relationship in a technological world, persons over devices, recognition over the impersonal.
Connecting your work to God's work, vocation, idolatry, and the dignity of ordinary labor.
How a culture conducts its public business through entertainment, and what the medium does to the message.
The surrender of culture to technology, when efficiency becomes the only question worth asking.
How your limits are good news, finitude as a gift of creation rather than a problem to engineer away.
A clear-eyed look at what the smartphone is doing to attention, presence, and the heart.
A theology of technology, neither techno-utopian nor fearful, but ordered to the glory of God.
Artificial intelligence and the future of humanity, dignity, image-bearing, and Christian ethics for thinking machines.
The redeeming and corrupting power of technology, traced through the whole biblical story.
Karen Swallow Prior on vocation and the question of what a life is for, recovering a Christian vision of calling beyond career.
The real cost of social media, how the feed disciples us, and how to use it without being used.
The spiritual power of habit, we are shaped less by what we think and more by what we love and repeat.
The classic critique of “technique”, the relentless logic of efficiency that reshapes every domain of life.
On conditioning, nature, and what we lose when man's conquest of nature becomes nature's conquest of man.
How big-data algorithms scale hidden bias into high-stakes decisions about parole, loans, hiring, and more.
Gospel-humility that stops measuring the self, the one thing that breaks the cycle of pride and shame.
Our deepest desires point past every earthly object to the God who made us for himself.
Jason Thacker joined the show to talk about Following Jesus in a Digital Age.
Chris Martin joined the show to talk about Wolf in Their Pockets.
Derek Schuurman joined the show to talk about A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers.
Samuel D. James joined the show to talk about Digital Liturgies.
Dave Betts joined the show to talk about The Church and AI.
Jake Meador joined the show to talk about What Are Christians For?.
Joseph Minich joined the show to talk about Bulwarks of Unbelief.
Jay Y. Kim joined the show to talk about Listen, Listen, Speak.
Jeffrey Bilbro joined the show to talk about Words for Conviviality.
Glenn Butner joined the show to talk about Work Out Your Salvation.
Kelly Kapic joined the show to talk about You Were Never Meant to Do It All.
Paul Hoffman joined the show to talk about AI Shepherds and Electric Sheep.
Meta’s flagship social network, from Zuckerberg’s meaning-of-life answer to the Orion glasses and the minors-addiction lawsuit.
Meta’s image feed, and the questions it raises about youth, comparison, and what a platform owes the people it forms.
Twitter, its sale and renaming to X, and the platform churn around Threads and Bluesky.
The short-video platform, its pull on attention, and the geopolitics of a Chinese-owned app on American phones.
Where the show keeps starting: creation, the image of God, the cultural mandate, and the first technologies east of Eden.
Bind these words: formation, memory, and the warning that we become like what we trust.
Come away and rest a while: the pace of Jesus against the pace of the feed.
The Word made flesh, God's preferred medium, and abiding versus consuming.
Truth and love in a few short verses, ending with the line the show keeps returning to: rather than paper and ink, to come and speak face to face.
The prayer book of the show. Idols that cannot speak, the heavens telling God's glory, and rest for the restless.
Whatever is true and lovely: an attention economy of a very different kind.
The kingdom, the greatest commandment, and a carpenter who makes things.
The show's framework for disagreement: conscience, Christian liberty, and Romans 14.
Bodies, freedom, and love: being all things to all people without being used.
Treasure in jars of clay, presence in spirit, and the limits of the body.
Freedom that is not a license, and the fruit the algorithm cannot grow.
Where the show has turned to 2 Samuel.
Idol-makers who cannot save, and the God who outlasts every empire and engine.
Where the show has turned to Haggai.
In him we live and move and have our being, preached into a marketplace of new gods.
Maturity, perseverance, and worship that outlasts the shaking of the world.
Everything under the sun, vanity and limits, in an age that refuses both.
New creation, good works prepared beforehand, and walking as children of light.
All things hold together in Christ, including the things we make.
Law, idols, and a people formed out of slavery, read into a world of new powers.
Parables of soil and stewardship for a distracted generation.
Babylon's commerce and the city that comes down: where the whole story is going.
Exile and the call to seek the welfare of the city, even a digital Babylon.
Wisdom for ordinary life, including the overindulgence our tools make frictionless.
Where the show has turned to 1 Peter.
Faithfulness in a foreign court, and kingdoms weighed and found wanting.
Holiness, sacrifice, and the strange seriousness of worship.
Where the show has turned to Nehemiah.
Where the show has turned to 2 Timothy.
Where the show has turned to 1 Thessalonians.