Why our tools are built to fragment us, and how to reclaim attention as the substance of love.
Themes and subthemes Distraction & Attention keeps running into.
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If distraction is engineered, how do we push back? Five counter-practices for reclaiming attention in an economy built to fragment it.
The tech-driven explosion of sports betting, and a Christian read on risk and desire.
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.
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.
Apple's Crush ad becomes a parable for compression, and the hosts ask what we lose when every tool is flattened into a screen.
Jay Y. Kim on how noise rewires our craving for silence, and why analog presence transforms where digital only informs.
What is a teen worth to a platform? A conversation on youth, Instagram, and how parents and pastors can respond.
Ian Harber joins to weigh AI companions, a fragmenting internet, and what is real when the feed is full of bots.
Kelly Kapic traces how the clock turned time from gift into currency, and how ritual rhythms free us from the tyranny of efficiency.
Apple's Vision Pro promises a new kind of presence. Does spatial computing connect us, or quietly isolate us? A first Christian read.
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.
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.
As Musk circles Twitter, the hosts read the platform's decontextualized speech against ancient wisdom about news, words, and the formation of attention.
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.
Can we be fully present in a virtual world? A look at the metaverse through embodiment, the incarnation, and what actually makes us persons.