Genesis

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.

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.

Automation, vocation, and whether God cares if a machine takes your work.

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

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.

Reading the latest gentle-singularity optimism against a Christian account of human nature.

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.

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

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.

From CES 2024, the hosts look past chatbots to embodied AI and robots, and ask how Jesus would meet a machine with a body.

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

Apple's Vision Pro promises a new kind of presence. Does spatial computing connect us, or quietly isolate us? A first Christian read.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.