Resident Theologian
About the Blog
More screens, more distractions; fewer screens, fewer distractions
A vision for the design of our shared spaces, especially public worship.
Local church bans smartphones
What if churches showed Jonathan Haidt proof of concept for his clarion call to K–12 schools to ban smartphones? Let’s start now.
What Christian parents hope for their children
Not wealth or health. Not success. Not intelligence or skill or talent. Not safety per se. Not freedom from suffering. Not a long life for its own sake. Not goodness, considered as a moral achievement. Not even happiness, in the popular sense. No, it’s something else.
Four loves follow-up
A brief follow-up to the last post about the state of the four loves in the youngest generations today.
Dreams and prayers
More than occasionally I dream of people whom I have neither seen nor thought of in years, sometimes near on two decades. I was in high school from 2000 to 2004, and at least once every couple months nowadays a random person from high school—a stranger, not a close friend, someone I might have been “friends” with on Facebook, before I deleted my account—just walks into a dream. Not a weird dream. Not a nightmare. Just populated by people I know as well as the name and face of an almost complete stranger I last saw more than 17 years ago.