What's Going on in the World?

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We need another a reformation. Maybe it's 500 year. We need one every 500 years, where in that moment, you know, it strikes me social media its really good at killing sort of sacred cows. There are layers of corruption underneath. It seems like now, more than in years past, you can almost be assured that, give time, if there's something rotten in denmark, we're going to know,. whereas we may not have known that before. I've probably been in denial a lot in my life, and probably still am. But i'm trying less and less to be but also to have the hope that history gives us...that this isn't new

This week David and Curtis are joined by Karen Swallow Prior, writer, thinker, and research professor of English and Christianity and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Karen talks to us about the current state of affairs in social media, particularly Twitter, and compares its impact on culture and the church to another critical technology, the printing press. She discusses how these modern technologies are impacting our brains, and how we can push back against this through the simple act of reading, especially the (necessarily slow and contemplative) reading of literature.

Show Notes:

-National Endowment of the Arts - “Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America”

-Caleb Crain (The New Yorker) - “Why We Don’t Read, Revisited”

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-Follow Curtis’ work at RedeemingBabel.org