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Distraction & Attention

Why our tools are built to fragment us, and how to reclaim attention as the substance of love.

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01Attention is the substance of love, guard it.
02Distraction is a designed outcome, not a personal failing alone.

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EP 6Jul 19, 2022
Living With Distracting Tech

If distraction is engineered, how do we push back? Five counter-practices for reclaiming attention in an economy built to fragment it.

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EP 65Dec 17, 2024
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Jeffrey Bilbro on reading, attention, and recovering a convivial common life in a distracted age.

EP 64Dec 10, 2024
Gardens of Love and Digital Dopamine (Matthew LaPine)

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

EP 49May 14, 2024
A Bad ADple

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

EP 47Apr 16, 2024
Listen, Listen, Speak (Jay Y. Kim)

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

EP 41Nov 29, 2023
Youth, Social Media, and How Instagram Values Teens at $270 (John Perritt & Erica Bechtel)

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

EP 38Oct 18, 2023
Meta, AI Chatbots, and The Future Of The Internet (Ian Harber)

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

EP 33Aug 8, 2023
The Tyranny of Time (Kelly Kapic)

Kelly Kapic traces how the clock turned time from gift into currency, and how ritual rhythms free us from the tyranny of efficiency.

EP 29Jun 6, 2023
Apple Vision Pro — Sin or Savior?

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

EP 26May 2, 2023
Digital Addiction and Rest

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.

EP 25Apr 18, 2023
Parenting Well in a Digital Age (Nathan Sutherland)

Nathan Sutherland on parenting with technology: the difference between tools and 'drool tech,' and why hedges work better than walls.

EP 19Jan 27, 2023
Value in Video Games (Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra)

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?

EP 16Dec 6, 2022
Living On God's Word With Technology

Can a Bible app help you meditate, or only help you access? A reflection on Deuteronomy 6, digital doorposts, and reading Scripture with screens.

EP 13Oct 25, 2022
Twitter News & Ancient Views

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

EP 10Sep 13, 2022
Would Jesus Use BeReal?

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.

EP 2May 24, 2022
The Morality of the Metaverse

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

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