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Rest & Sabbath

Sabbath, finitude, and attention in a world engineered to keep you scrolling. Rest as resistance and as worship.

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01Rest is resistance to a world that monetizes restlessness.
02Our limits are good, finitude is creaturely, not sinful.

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EP 80May 29, 2025
You Were Never Meant to Do It All (Kelly Kapic)

Kelly Kapic returns on limits, finitude, and the freedom of being a creature who cannot do it all.

EP 57Oct 15, 2024
Rule of Life as Technology (Kirsten Sanders)

Kirsten Sanders asks whether rule-of-life frameworks can reflect insecurity, and how tech catechizes us into machine-like selves.

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 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 15Nov 22, 2022
James Kelly, Founder of FaithTech

FaithTech founder James Kelly on the difference between exploitative, responsible, and redemptive technology, and why lament belongs in the conversation.

EP 12Oct 11, 2022
The Burdens of Working in Tech (Hayden Mills & David Deepwell)

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.

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.

EP 3Jun 7, 2022
Limits (with Scott MacLellan)

Are our limits a problem to fix or a gift to receive? Scott MacLellan joins to untangle finitude from sin, and productivity from rest.

EP 1May 10, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg and the Meaning of Life

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.

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