Back to exploreSabbath, finitude, and attention in a world engineered to keep you scrolling. Rest as resistance and as worship.
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Social Media 28 Discipleship in a Digital Age 67 Vocation & Making 46 Techno-Idolatry 21 Faithful Presence 10 Distraction & Attention 19 CES 11 Church & Pastoring 28 Key ideas
01 Rest is resistance to a world that monetizes restlessness.
02 Our limits are good, finitude is creaturely, not sinful.
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EP 80 May 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.
#You Were Never Meant to Do It All #limits #finitude #Kelly Kapic #Mark Zuckerberg
EP 57 Oct 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.
#rule of life #formation #Kirsten Sanders #James K.A. Smith
EP 33 Aug 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.
#time #clocks #Kelly Kapic #George Woodcock
EP 26 May 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.
#digital addiction #habit loop #Charles Duhigg #Nir Eyal
EP 15 Nov 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.
#faithtech origin #exploitative vs responsible vs redemptive tech #James Kelly #James K.A. Smith
EP 6 Jul 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.
#Distraction #attention economy #Alan Jacobs #Michael Sacasas
EP 3 Jun 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.
#human limits #finitude vs sin #Kelly Kapic #Jen Wilkin
EP 1 May 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.
#Mark Zuckerberg #Facebook #meaning of life #work #Tim Keller