Your phone is shaping your attention, your desires, and ultimately your life—and not for the better. Let me be clear: your phone is also incredibly beneficial, but virtually everyone has developed unhealthy habits around them. One of the most impactful things any of us could do to improve the quality of our lives is to … Continue reading 7 Ways Your Phone is Harming You
There is a nature to things, and we rail against it daily. This nature is an order we did not create and cannot ultimately escape. There is real right and wrong, and anyone who disagrees only confirms it, because within a few sentences of their rebuttal, they will begin using moral language. For all of … Continue reading Unnatural Deeds Do Breed Unnatural Troubles
"Excitement is not the same as fulfillment." I came across that line in a book about how online stimulation can leave us overstimulated—zapping our attention span, weakening our self-control, and making us less capable of pursuing the slower, more meaningful work that leads to fulfillment. If you are like me, you have had the following … Continue reading Recover the Life You’ve Been Too Distracted to Live
What are the essential elements of worship music? My wife and I heard a stirring worship song the other day. Not only were the lyrics theologically rich, but the music was moving as well. Still, something seemed off. By the end of the song, we realized it was AI-generated—not merely written by AI, but performed … Continue reading Why AI Worship Music Feels Empty
“He is not afraid of bad news." This statement should not only apply to some Christians some of the time but to all Christians all of the time, for the first six words of this paragraph came directly from scripture. A lack of fear is possible because the Christian’s heart is firm, trusting in the … Continue reading How to Read the News Without Losing Your Soul
And just like that, the world is better at writing. I have noticed lately that the emails I receive have improved in quality. Even scammers use perfect prose while trying to get me to hand over my login credentials. All of this is thanks to artificial intelligence. I have often used A.I. to clean up … Continue reading On Writing: The Personal Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Richard Baxter lived long before comment sections and social media, but he understood Christian controversy remarkably well. What follows is his counsel, lightly edited and applied to the modern habit of online biting and devouring. You may be sure that most quarrels among Christians on social media tend to the ruin of the Church, the … Continue reading A Puritan Checks Your Phone
The following is a guest post by Rob Golding, pastor of Artesia CRC. David Foster Wallace gave a commencement speech that shook the world; then he killed himself. It was hailed as wisdom for living, yet he could not live by it. The address was “met with universal acclaim.” The New Yorker, Huffington Post, and The … Continue reading This is Water: The Currents of a Christless Life
A great tragedy of much of modern evangelicalism is not only that we have neglected to think deeply, but that in doing so, we have also forgotten how to feel rightly. In Mark Noll's book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, he argues that Evangelicals have largely abandoned serious intellectual engagement. He then traces that … Continue reading The Scandal of the Evangelical Heart
Forget the internet. Forget how much you rely upon it. Forget that it is currently feeding you this content. Forget that it has reduced everything to content. Forget that it has trained you to consume that content. Forget that it is consuming you. Forget that you cannot drive to a new location without it. Forget … Continue reading Forget the Internet
The Fight of Faith 