Is There a Pandemic of Online Churches?

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Life church was one of the first churches to do on line church back in two thousand six. Do you have any indication, if you know, life or evangelical churches who have adapted these technologies before the pandemic have been benefiting, in particular, from this move to online during the pandemic? That's a great question. I don't have any hard data on that. But i can imagine it potentially opened them up to people far beyond where they would usually reach as more people were going on line and looking for some sort of church service.

Paris Marx is joined by Corrina Laughlin to discuss how evangelical Christians have adapted to modern technologies, how churches have emulated startups, the growth of the faith tech sector, and whether there’s anything that can be learned from their tech experiments.

Corrina Laughlin is the author of Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture. She’s also an instructor of media studies at Loyola Marymount University. Follow Corrina on Twitter at @CKLaughlin.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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