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Technology is JUST a Tool: (Post #2)

I grew up with tools in hand. A pitchfork shoveling $%&# from our calves stalls or on a construction site with a hammer trying to avoid the #$%& words from all the adults around me. I discovered in tools a way to shape the environment around me, to use them to create, to leverage myContinue reading “Technology is JUST a Tool: (Post #2)”

Tech is JUST a Tool: And Other Myths… (Post #1)

Is digital technology as harmless as a hammer? A recent TGC article by Brett McCracken is titled “Are Churches Losing the Battle to Form Christians?” The opening lines are: Among the many ways 2020 has been punishing for pastors, one of the most disheartening is the way COVID-19 has further accelerated the already troubling tendencyContinue reading “Tech is JUST a Tool: And Other Myths… (Post #1)”

Letters to a Diminished Church – Why Work? (Post #2)

Linked below is one of the best English essays on work ever written. If you have never read this essay by Dorothy Sayers – treat yourself and your future work to it. It transformed my own view of work and specifically what it means to work as a Christian. It has interesting parallels to ourContinue reading “Letters to a Diminished Church – Why Work? (Post #2)”

Letters to a Diminished Church – Hold on Creation (Post #1)

“Our worst trouble today is our feeble hold on creation.” Dorothy Sayers, writing this from within the foreboding darkness of WWII Europe and witness to the gut wrenching fallout of war, was quite serious. The essay the quote originates from is entitled, “What Do We Believe” and revisits core Christian doctrines. First, and my focus,Continue reading “Letters to a Diminished Church – Hold on Creation (Post #1)”

Covid-19 Journey: Discovery (Post #1)

Let Your Life Speak – the popular title by renowned spiritual writer and educator, Parker Palmer, is an apt summary of my discovery in the midst of a global pandemic. The book also prompted this journey for me. A specific line of the book penetrated through the hard exterior of acquired false humility (some callContinue reading “Covid-19 Journey: Discovery (Post #1)”