Media Ecology

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Reading the latest gentle-singularity optimism against a Christian account of human nature.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

Devin, Sora, and a flood of releases: the hosts try to make sense of an AI moment moving faster than anyone can track.

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

Jake Meador on industrial and digital revolutions, the choices they foreclose, and recovering embodied life together.

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

PulpitAI's CEO makes the case for extending sermons into devotionals with AI, and faces the question of what only a local pastor can do.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Smart thermostats and sensors promise a frictionless home, but what is all that optimization forming us toward? A conversation about the hearth, convenience, and love.

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