Austin Gravley

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

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.

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.

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

A constructive case for using AI well in Christian life and work.

A major Meta lawsuit and what it signals for platforms, youth, and accountability.

A year after his ChatGPT prayer went viral, John Piper revisits AI on David Platt's Radical podcast. Austin and Joel hear less of a reversal than a sharpening. AI is a real kind of intelligence, and what makes us human is the spirit, not the feeling.

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

Bonnie Kristian on AI chatbots, companionship, and what is real in a conversation with a machine.

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.

Autonomous agents are here; the hosts on agency, responsibility, and concern.

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

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

Gregg Hinzelman on working and building for God's glory rather than the metrics.

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

A year-end map of where AI actually landed in 2025.

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.

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

The Neo humanoid robot arrives; the hosts on labor, the body, and living with machines.

Setting the tone: neither breathless nor fearful, how to talk about AI with wisdom.

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

Michael Graham on benchmarking AI models for Christian use and what the results reveal.

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

Phil Cotnoir on the psychedelic revival and a sober Christian evaluation of it.

A bracing theological conversation on spiritual realities, AI, and the limits of the demonic.

Karen Swallow Prior on vocation, reading, and answering a calling larger than a career.

Smart glasses are coming to the pew; the hosts on presence, distraction, and worship.

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

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

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

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.

When trust in the machine slips into worship, and how a Psalm-shaped discernment names it.

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

Ian Harber on stewarding testimony and story online without turning the self into a brand.

Pastor Luke Simmons on making local, faithful digital content for a real congregation.

Glenn Butner on markets, formation, and how our economic life quietly shapes the soul.

Caleb Wait on building durable institutions, not just audiences, in digital ministry.

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

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.

Jeffrey Bilbro on reading, attention, and recovering a convivial common life in a distracted age.

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

Alastair Roberts reframes amplification, print, and even AI through the incarnation, where God's chosen medium is human flesh.

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

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

Reading Dario Amodei's "Machines of Loving Grace" essay: the optimistic AI future, weighed against a Christian anthropology.

Internet culture is not a subculture anymore. The hosts on how the online has become the air we all breathe.

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

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

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

Cam Pak on building Faith Tools, a directory of Christian apps, without turning faith into self-service.

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

Bruce Taylor on prevention over cure, the cultural mandate, and a business model that aligns profit with creation care.

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

As OpenAI's board drama unfolds, the hosts read accelerationism and caution through a Christian frame.