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Nathan Sutherland of Gospel Tech rejoins all three hosts to talk parenting and video games. Why some games are engineered to overstimulate, how to tell whether a game is the cause of a problem or just a symptom, and a RESET framework (relationships, emotions, sleep, enjoyment, time) for discerning when play forms a child well and when it quietly pulls them away.

Wyatt Graham returns to read Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas — not the Pope “coming out against AI” but Catholic social teaching applied to the new thing. Technology is never neutral under the condition of the conditioners, the few oppress the many through its instruments, and prudential reasoning is the one thing AI cannot do.

Cars as technology: what the automobile did to place, the body, and neighborly life.

John Knox on the state of the faith-and-technology conversation right now.

A grab-bag on AI in warfare, kids and tech, and a wild news cycle.

The tech-driven explosion of sports betting, and a Christian read on risk and desire.

Reading technology through the whole biblical story, from the garden to the city.

Predictions for the year in tech, held with sober hope rather than hype or doom.

Why faithful Christians land differently on tech, and how to hold disagreement well.

Advent waiting against the technological impulse to seize, optimize, and never wait.

What the gods of Silicon Valley believe, and how their faith shapes the tech they build.

A round-table of Christian dads on screens, summer, and raising kids with wisdom.

Cory Hixson on finding your place and calling in the Christian technology world.

The hosts poke at tech cliches and the lazy takes that pass for wisdom about technology.

Responding to Wes Huff's history of technology and Christianity, and what a tech-savvy faith looks like.

Brad Littlejohn and Clare Morell on policy, parenting, and a positive vision for family tech.

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

Builders talk shop on working in tech across a shifting political and economic border.

Keith Plummer on what it means to be technologically literate, and why discernment beats reflex.

The hosts lay out what they expect from AI, platforms, and the church's tech in the year ahead.

After the 2024 election, the hosts on Christians, technology, and political hope in a platformed age.

Kirsten Sanders asks whether rule-of-life frameworks can reflect insecurity, and how tech catechizes us into machine-like selves.

A sermon-style reflection on Psalm 115: we become like what we trust, and our tools can quietly become our idols.

Adam Graber on predictions, groupthink, and disability tech as a Trojan horse for the rest of us.

Kevin Tuer makes the case for designing ethics into AI from the start, and for innovation as a form of stewardship.

Joseph Minich explains how managed, mediated modern life quietly erodes the felt presence of God, and how hospitality restores it.

Seven predictions for the year in tech, held with sober hope rather than hype or doom.

Jake Meador on industrial and digital revolutions, the choices they foreclose, and recovering embodied life together.

Matthew Chan shares how the Bible Project's reading tools grew from relational vision and real data on where readers drop off.

A self-reflective episode on the show's own purpose, and whether faithful witness is better served by words or by building.

From processed food to 3D-printed meals, the Hungry Theologian joins to ask what technology has done to how we eat, and to our care for creation.

Derek Schuurman on engineering as a Christian calling: design norms, a holistic worldview, and what redemptive technology asks of the people who build it.

Nathan Sutherland on parenting with technology: the difference between tools and 'drool tech,' and why hedges work better than walls.

Should our default be to adopt or to resist? Joel and Andrew disagree, working out what posture Christians should bring to every new tool.

Jess Joustra traces the WWJD bracelet back to its theological roots, and asks what it actually means to imitate Christ in the age of technology.

A walk through the gadgets of CES 2023, and a turn toward generosity: what should Christians make of an industry always selling the next new thing?

From Musk's Twitter to the arrival of ChatGPT, the hosts look back at the five tech stories that defined 2022, and why they still matter.

Can a Bible app help you meditate, or only help you access? A reflection on Deuteronomy 6, digital doorposts, and reading Scripture with screens.

FaithTech founder James Kelly on the difference between exploitative, responsible, and redemptive technology, and why lament belongs in the conversation.

Two Christians in the tech industry on faithful presence, the weight of the work, and what it means to labor from rest rather than for it.

Jason Thacker on forming wisdom instead of just following rules, and how our digital habits quietly disciple us in an age of misinformation.

Why do faithful Christians disagree about technology? Wyatt Graham brings Romans 14 and theological triage to a framework that fits almost every tech debate.

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

Money is a technology too. From fiat to Bitcoin, the hosts trace the moral grain of currency and ask what generosity looks like in a crypto age.

Are our limits a problem to fix or a gift to receive? Scott MacLellan joins to untangle finitude from sin, and productivity from rest.