Digital Liturgies (with Samuel D. James)

The social internet is shaping us, but how? Samuel D. James says, "Habits create habitats for our hearts; they shape our identity and train our desires." Today we speak with Samuel and learn how our digital habits are even more than habitats, they're liturgies.

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0:00 - Intro

2:44 - Speed Questions - Kids, Church, Writing, Blocking/Distraction App Called Freedom

5:16 - What is Digital Liturgies about?

5:48 - How The Shallows Shaped Samuel

7:35 - Why "Liturgies"?

10:27 - Our Doing Shapes Our Thinking?

15:27 - The Internet Shapes Gender?

21:42 - Wait... what's the "internet" we're talking about?

25:45 - Reading Hyperlinks & Ebooks Shape You

28:45 - The Future With AI

31:03 - Anxiety, The Failure of Therapy, and The Social Internet

43:48 - Magic Wand To Change Things?

48:59 - The Gospel Changes How We Use The Internet

53:05 - Equipping People To Think Theologically About Technology

Books/links referenced:

• Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
• Digital Liturgies - Samuel's Newsletter
• You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K.A. Smith
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
• Terms of Service: The Real Cost of Social Media
• The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Audio Documentary
• WWJT interview with John Dyer
• People of the Screen: How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shapes Their Reading of Scripture by John Dyer
• Jonathan Haidt's research on After Babel
• iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
• Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

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