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December 2025

December 05, 2025

Advanced Technology Makes Us More Primitive

When we think of our advanced information technology, we immediately marvel at how advanced our...

July 2023

July 26, 2023

A Demonology of the Internet

Catholic theologian Thomas Harmon draws parallels between the ways the devil tempts us and the...

July 25, 2023

Salvation from Being “Spiritual”

Today people claim to be "spiritual but not religious." Even many religious people seek to...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

Deplatforming

An agency of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod was cancelled by Facebook, collateral damage in...

February 2019

February 14, 2019

Vocation, Technology, & Luther’s “Theology of Tools”

Rev. A. Trevor Sutton, the co-writer with me of Authentic Christianity: How Lutheran Theology...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

“The Pleasure of Boredom”

Boredom has been described as one of the major spiritual problems of our time. The...

March 2018

March 09, 2018

The News that Spreads Most Is False, Negative, and Surprising

A major study of how information spreads online has found that information that is false...

February 2018

February 16, 2018

Is Print Journalism Down to Its Last 10 Years?

Do we need print on paper anymore? After all, we can download books on Kindle,...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

How the Word of God Is Getting Everywhere

In church and Bible studies all over the world, people are taking out their smart...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

All sides are turning against Silicon Valley

The tech geniuses and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley have been lauded for their creativity and...

September 07, 2017

Steve Jobs and the Trump Reformation

Can you connect these dots?: Gutenberg, Martin Luther, Steve Jobs, Donald Trump. In his column Steve...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

Luther and technology

David Gibson of Religious News Service tells about three major exhibitions opening this month on...

September 2014

September 02, 2014

Back to school–I mean, “possibility space”!

Daniel J. Flynn has written a book entitled Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and...

January 2014

January 07, 2014

The sensorization of consumer tech

The big thing out of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? Biometrics. Eye-tracking...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

News costs money

I like to read newspapers. Those big floppy papery things.* (*Who can catch that allusion?) ...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

How the Democrats used FaceBook

The Washington Post is publishing excerpts from its reporter Dan Balz's book on the last...

July 05, 2013

Is the internet worth it?

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson argues that the internet is not worth it. Yes, it's...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

The boundary between work and home

A growing number of companies are telling employees to stop using electronics to work even...

June 2012

June 12, 2012

Obama’s data mining

Yesterday we posted about mining "big data," how corporations, politicians, and researchers are delving into...

June 11, 2012

Mining “big data”

An interesting article by Ariana Eunjung Cha on how financiers, politicians, and researchers are mining...

January 2012

January 25, 2012

Petronius, gluttony, and the Internet

Another example of how classical literature can help us think through contemporary issues. Rob Goodman...

January 20, 2012

The internet strike may have worked

The Wikipedia blackout and other protests on the internet to the SOPA bill may have...

January 19, 2012

The Bible’s physical form

We Lutherans believe in the supernatural efficacy of "Word and Sacrament." Other Christians believe in...

January 11, 2012

Information’s dependence on advertising

Ezra Klein points out that in the 19th century the different newspapers were tied to...

December 2011

December 28, 2011

“How Luther went viral”

The Economist tells how Luther, in effect, used social media: Although they were written in...

June 2011

June 21, 2011

Couch rebels

Is today's information technology a revolutionary force or the opiate of the people? The verdict...

June 20, 2011

End of the professional/personal divide

An article on how the Navy has been sacking commanding officers for personal misconduct ends...

March 2011

March 02, 2011

Let us now praise the internet

A new study has found that young people who are active on the internet are...