The repeated story across Scripture, with few exceptions, is that technology should be limited for the sake of relationships.
Is it wrong to design boats while others fish for men?
My latest for TGCC: ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/dont...
Good takes take time.
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph," - Susan Sontag in 1979
(From a good book I’m reading)
The grace displayed in the flood was not special grace but common grace. The ark did not save unto eternal life but for temporal life on earth.
- Kuyper
It is not that one repents, experiences forgiveness, and then is later baptized, but rather that the attitude of repentance comes to tangible expression in the act of baptism.
- Stan Fowler
In Matthew 15:4-6, Jesus warns against using one commandment to override a different command (in this case.
If you think Jesus is a great moral teacher, you won’t use “love neigbour” to override the condemnation of sexual immorality.
Tomorrow, I teach my first class at Heritage College and Seminary.
Today, I was feeling nervous.
Then I played basketball. Now I feel pure excitement to teach. Also very thankful. God is good.
A Professor, a Pastor, and a Product Manager discuss technology in 2026.
Listen to our podcast: What Would Jesus Tech?
I am more delighted to have declared the truth than to be praised for it.
- Augustine
Be careful not to over-psychologize in hermeneutics and interpretation.
From Paul Riceour:
We underestimate how substantially different writing is from speaking.
From Ricouer:
In Scripture, we are not enemies or subjects of technology but kings and queens who rule.
The New Testament lies concealed in the Old, the Old lies revealed in the New.
- Augustine
Reading books isn’t safe, but it is good.
- Justin Holcomb
Our criticism of technology lags behind its seductive power.
- Sherry Turkle
Less than a week to sign up for my new course at Heritage College and Seminary.
What we imagine most is what we image best. To navigate technology wisely, we must know Jesus.
Read enough Wendell Berry, and you might reject AI for the sake of nature.
Read enough Jacques Ellul, and you might reject AI for the sake of telos.
Or at least that’s how it seems to happen. The truth is much more complicated.
I wrote about that here:
www.andrewnoble.net/p/whats-your...
A "religionless" human is a mere construct, as thin and vacuous an abstraction as the "natural man" of Rousseau and the adherents of the social contract.
In reality it never existed.
- Herman Bavinck
Idols must be named, understood, and demythologized as part of Christian formation.
Technology is not just something that mediates between our mental intentions and the physical world about us, technology gets inside our heads and affects the very way in which we conceive our reality.
- George Pattison
"Screens can be like a Swiss Army knife at a meal. The extra features distract from what’s important." @andrewnoble.bsky.social
ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/phys...
Every physical substance contains a spiritual reality.
It is only in Christ that we know what it is to be human.
- Herman Bavinck
Modern people have no moral ideal, no example; they are only infatuated with progress toward a misty ideal. They are, therefore, restless, empty, without authority, disconnected, and emancipated.
- Herman Bavinck in the early 1900s
It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for he gives to his beloved sheep.
- God
Top 7 biblical themes to teach on technology:
1) idol / identity / image
2) creation / cultural mandate / new creation
3) exile / Babylon
4) shame / clothes / ark / imputation
5) possessions / ownership / money
6) relationship / church / love
7) virtue / Spirit / fruit
Would we have gotten C.S. Lewis’ enchantment without Barfield’s participation?
Theology podcasts I enjoy:
- Into Theology
- London Lyceum
- Mere Fidelity
- Grace in Common
- Thinking About The Faith (I cohost this one with Jon Cleland)
