When the World Feels Out of ControlIt is difficult to look at our world without feeling that something is deeply wrong. Wars continue, political divisions deepen, technology is changing faster than we can process, morality seems increasingly confused, and many people feel anxious about what kind of world their children will inherit. Every new crisis generates another wave of predictions, conspirac...

Technology has always made the same promise: it will save us time.The washing machine would shorten housework. Email would speed up communication. Smartphones would help us organize our lives. Now artificial intelligence can research, write, schedule, analyze, and accomplish in minutes what once took hours.And yet, we do not seem to have more free time.The problem is not that these technologies fa...

Because apparently I love to stir the pot, we are going to revisit the pews vs. chairs conversation. Actually, let me say that better: we have kicked this can far enough down the road and as much as I’d like to, we can’t delay it much further.Our poor pews have served faithfully for a long time, but they are showing their age. The fabric is wearing thin, there are already several visible tears, an...

I follow this Christian Psychologist named Sean Tobin. He has a lot of really insightful things to say.  Here is a summary of one that will help us understand what social media algorithm is doing to us:  The Algorithm Traffics in Reaction — Choose Response InsteadHere’s the distinction that matters most right now:Algorithms train you to react. A healthy inner life trains you to respond.Modern plat...