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Technology & Online Life

Phones, social media, comparison, and who we're becoming on our screens.

October 3, 2025

Informed or Formed?

The Instagrammable Christian Life

October 6, 2023

The Strength To Be Weak

It's easy to edit our social media lives, carefully curating each post to show ourselves at our best. With automatic filters and a little AI, we present our ideal selves online.

August 3, 2023

Has Social Media Hooked You?

How much time would you estimate you spend on social media?

August 19, 2022

FOMO

When I was a junior in high school, most of my friends made plans to go to Europe for the summer. (With the benefit of hindsight, I can see what an unusual and privileged situatio…

June 28, 2022

Is Real Life Better?

We all know it’s true: real life is better than whatever’s online, right?

June 17, 2022

Who Are You Becoming Online?

Jared Stacy, the former pastor of Spotswood Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, VA, worked hard to serve the members of his congregation. His desire was to teach the Bible and encou…

June 16, 2022

Why Did God Give You A Platform?

Today nearly anyone can have a “platform.” Even if you only have a couple of hundred people “following you” on social media, there’s influence to be stewarded. It’s not a number i…

November 8, 2021

What's Wrong With Disembodied Communication?

What makes technology so dangerous?

March 25, 2021

How Technology Replaces God

Have you ever interrupted a quiet time with God to check something on your phone?

March 28, 2016

A True Comparison

In the age of social media, it seems that comparing ourselves to one another is inevitable. How can you not compare yourself to others when, every day, you are seeing the glamorou…

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