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We've touched on this 11 times, but not a standalone deep dive

Here is every episode that brings it up, newest first.

EP 69Feb 12, 2025
Multiplying the Word: Wise Digital Marketing (Chris Martin)

First in a series on church and tech: Chris Martin on marketing the gospel without manipulation.

EP 62Nov 20, 2024
Grounding the Bluesky Hype

Bluesky surges as users leave X. Is the new platform actually different, or just the next hype cycle?

EP 55Sep 18, 2024
The MASSIVE Change Coming To Social Media

Section 230, algorithms, and regulation: the hosts unpack a shift that could remake how social platforms work.

EP 51Jun 20, 2024
Growth, Influence, and Stories: Getting to Know Austin Gravley

A biographical conversation with co-host Austin Gravley on power, formation, and finding a voice inside digital Babylon.

EP 41Nov 29, 2023
Youth, Social Media, and How Instagram Values Teens at $270 (John Perritt & Erica Bechtel)

What is a teen worth to a platform? A conversation on youth, Instagram, and how parents and pastors can respond.

EP 32Jul 8, 2023
Will Threads Bind Twitter? (Chris Martin & Wyatt Graham)

Threads launches against Twitter, and the hosts ask whether yet another platform can be used without using us.

EP 26May 2, 2023
Digital Addiction and Rest

If our apps are engineered to hook us, what does freedom look like? A practical, pastoral conversation on habit loops, dopamine, and rest in God.

EP 23Mar 21, 2023
Social Media, Anxiety, and Leadership (Chris Martin)

Chris Martin on the anxiety social media breeds, the gap between our front- and backstage selves, and how churches should show up online.

EP 19Jan 27, 2023
Value in Video Games (Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra)

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra on a theology of play: when do games simply delight us, when do they disciple us, and how should parents think about both?

EP 10Sep 13, 2022
Would Jesus Use BeReal?

Is authenticity overrated? Using BeReal as a test case, the hosts ask what 'be real' actually demands of us, and whether any app can deliver it.

EP 6Jul 19, 2022
Living With Distracting Tech

If distraction is engineered, how do we push back? Five counter-practices for reclaiming attention in an economy built to fragment it.

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