Augustine of Hippo

SEO is dead, so Andrew reframes the whole question: communication is how we love our neighbor, which means choosing the right medium. The hosts work through email, group texts, church apps like Planning Center, a Google Voice text ministry, and the new robots.txt era of search.

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.

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.

Living faithfully as exiles in a digital Babylon, and what comes after the diagnosis.

What happens to reading, writing, and teaching when AI can do the homework.

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

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

Kelly Kapic returns on limits, finitude, and the freedom of being a creature who cannot do it all.

Matthew LaPine on desire, dopamine, and rightly ordering our loves when every app is engineered to hijack them.

Apple's Crush ad becomes a parable for compression, and the hosts ask what we lose when every tool is flattened into a screen.

Ian Harber joins to weigh AI companions, a fragmenting internet, and what is real when the feed is full of bots.

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.

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.

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?