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Jacques Ellul

French thinker and author of The Technological Society. He argued that technique becomes a self-justifying force, bending every human end toward efficiency.

6 episodes
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EP 114Jun 2, 2026
The Pope Said THIS About AI (Wyatt Graham)

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.

EP 97Dec 15, 2025
Reading and Teaching in an Age of AI

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

EP 81Jun 5, 2025
AI Shepherds and Electric Sheep (Paul Hoffman)

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

EP 31Jul 4, 2023
Food Tech (with Hungry Theologian)

From processed food to 3D-printed meals, the Hungry Theologian joins to ask what technology has done to how we eat, and to our care for creation.

EP 20Feb 10, 2023
Hey Siri, What Is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT has arrived. The hosts ask what it means that we make AI in our own image, and where moral agency really lives.

EP 9Aug 30, 2022
Following Jesus In a Digital Age (Jason Thacker)

Jason Thacker on forming wisdom instead of just following rules, and how our digital habits quietly disciple us in an age of misinformation.

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