Discipleship in a Digital Age

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.

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.

Andrew and Joel sit down with Scott Hurst, a self-described 'average' Toronto pastor, to hear how the AI conversation actually sounds between pastors. Less 'should AI write your sermon' (nobody is) and more rental agreements, meeting minutes, the capacity for mystery, and the pain points a shepherd should never automate 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.

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 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.

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.

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

Jonas Kurlberg and Zoltan Schwab on AI, hermeneutics, and who gets to interpret Scripture.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A practical conversation on when and how to reach for generative AI with a clear conscience.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Jay Y. Kim on how noise rewires our craving for silence, and why analog presence transforms where digital only informs.

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

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

What is a teen worth to a platform? A conversation on youth, Instagram, and how parents and pastors can respond.

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.

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

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

Samuel James argues the internet is not just a tool but a set of liturgies quietly forming what we desire.

Luke Miller shows how networked note-taking tools like Roam can serve pastors, developers, and learners weaving insight together.

Threads launches against Twitter, and the hosts ask whether yet another platform can be used without using us.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

As Musk circles Twitter, the hosts read the platform's decontextualized speech against ancient wisdom about news, words, and the formation of attention.

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.

Ruth Cuthbert on dating apps, singleness, and the hard work of treating a profile as a person rather than an option to swipe past.

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.

Can we be fully present in a virtual world? A look at the metaverse through embodiment, the incarnation, and what actually makes us persons.

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.