Genesis 1

Andrew and Joel trade summer reading, seven books that shaped how they build. Range and kind vs wicked worlds, The Lean Startup on testing a hypothesis instead of debating it, Culture Making on why creating beats critiquing, and the evolutionary neuroscience the frontier labs are mining for the next breakthrough.

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

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.

Wyatt Graham on theosis, human telos, and the transhumanist dream of becoming gods.

Paul Hoffman on AI in ministry, the shepherd's irreplaceable work, and what machines cannot pastor.

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

Meta's Orion glasses point past AR to a deeper bet about mediated reality, and what motivates the company building it.

Devin, Sora, and a flood of releases: the hosts try to make sense of an AI moment moving faster than anyone can track.

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.

Humanoid robots are quietly arriving. The hosts on labor, the body, and what it means to love God with our strength when machines have hands.

A practical guide to staying secure online, and a Christian way of thinking about passwords, risk, and digital property.

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

John Dyer on what changes when Scripture moves from print to screen, and whether the People of the Book are quietly becoming the People of the Screen.

ChatGPT has arrived. The hosts ask what it means that we make AI in our own image, and where moral agency really lives.

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?

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

An introduction to AI for Christians: how it actually works, where the hype outruns reality, and the questions personhood raises for machines that 'think.'

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.

Why does a voice in your ears feel like a friend? The hosts on podcasting, parasocial closeness, and the difference between consuming and creating.

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

What does Silicon Valley believe about the meaning of life? The series opens by reading Mark Zuckerberg's vision of work against a theology of vocation, idolatry, and rest.