Digital Liturgies with Samuel James
The internet is shaping us, but how? Samuel D. James says, "Habits create habitats for our hearts; they shape our identity and train our desires." Today we speak with Samuel and learn how our digital habits are even more than habitats; they're liturgies.
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
2:44 - Speed Questions - Kids, Church, Distraction Blocking Apps, Writing
5:16 - What is Digital Liturgies about?
5:48 - How The Shallows Shaped Samuel
7:35 - Why "Liturgies"?
10:27 - Our Doing Shapes Our Thinking?
15:27 - The Internet Shapes Gender?
21:42 - Wait... what's the "internet" we're talking about?
25:45 - Reading Hyperlinks & Ebooks Shape You
28:45 - The Future With AI
31:03 - Anxiety, The Failure of Therapy, and The Social Internet
43:48 - Magic Wand To Change Things?
48:59 - The Gospel Changes How We Use The Internet
53:05 - Equipping People To Think Theologically About Technology
Books/links referenced:
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
Digital Liturgies - Samuel's Newsletter
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K.A. Smith
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Terms of Service: The Real Cost of Social Media
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Audio Documentary
People of the Screen: How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shapes Their Reading of Scripture by John Dyer
Jonathan Haidt's research on After Babel
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
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