Techno-Idolatry

When trust in the machine slips into worship, and how a Psalm-shaped discernment names it.

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.

Advent waiting against the technological impulse to seize, optimize, and never wait.

Wyatt Graham on theosis, human telos, and the transhumanist dream of becoming gods.

Is the AI boom a bubble or a turning point? The hosts weigh the signals.

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

A bracing theological conversation on spiritual realities, AI, and the limits of the demonic.

A sermon-style reflection on Psalm 115: we become like what we trust, and our tools can quietly become our idols.

Seven predictions for the year in tech, held with sober hope rather than hype or doom.

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

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

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.

Should our default be to adopt or to resist? Joel and Andrew disagree, working out what posture Christians should bring to every new tool.

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.

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?

Ruth Cuthbert on dating apps, singleness, and the hard work of treating a profile as a person rather than an option to swipe past.

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.

Money is a technology too. From fiat to Bitcoin, the hosts trace the moral grain of currency and ask what generosity looks like in a crypto age.

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

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.