Part 1: Why This Conversation, Why Now?
Christians can develop a better framework for understanding the digital world, responding to it, and living humanely and faithfully within it.
Josh Pauling
Josh Pauling is a husband, father, classical educator, and vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church in Charlotte, N.C. Co-author (with Robin Phillips) of Are We All Cyborgs Now?, he has also written for LOGIA, Modern Reformation, Public Discourse, Salvo and Touchstone, and worked in public education for thirteen years as a high school history teacher and coach.
Confessing Together: How the Creed Proclaims You are Not Your Own
Our Christian creed provides a counter-cultural story and identity that is both true and real.
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The Failure of Digital Community
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‘Blessed Is the Fruit of Your Womb!’
Christ’s birth provides a beautiful archetype of life in our culture of death.