REPLAY: Technology vs. Humanity

Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World w/ Andy Crouch - S2:E5 Originally Published: June 14, 2022

“I’m the furthest thing from hopeless about our current world and the technological empire we live in because we’ve seen it before. We’ve seen the renewal that can happen when a very small group of people, albeit somewhat crazy people, say we’re just not living on the empire's terms; we’re doing this other thing. And then crazy stuff begins to happen.”

www.praxislabs.org/life - Video Introduction and Book Purchase
tinyurl.com/andy-book-excerpt

[1:30] Introducing Andy Crouch

[3:20] A book about what it means, and how hard it is, to be a person in our world.

[5:02] Preparing to write: despair, anguish, and self-loathing.

[5:45] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

[8:28] excerpt: “If there is one word that sums up the crisis of personhood in our time, for the powerful and powerless alike, it is loneliness…”

[11:00] We are so swimming in isolation, that we don’t know what it would be like to not be lonely. We live in a cultural environment that is structured to make it difficult to pay attention to other people.

[16:20] Relating to persons as robots: creatures that look just like us, but manufactured, not begotten, to do the work humans don’t want to do; their worth is only in their utility.

[19:23] Leanne Payne: We either contemplate or we exploit.

[23:12] The politics of recognition is a demand to be affirmed. Real relationships, however, don't ratify everything in a person; we’re going to urge one another to go from bent ways to good deeds.

[26:32] A household is more than just family; it sees a person and what that person could be, not just what I currently am.

[27:32] Church for Church Leaders: netzer.org/donate

[33:50] The Gospel of Jesus Christ inverts the Gospel of the Empire

[37:20] The Empire of Technology gives us a template for what it means to matter, to make a difference, and to have power. The way of Jesus is just different.

[39:31] Excerpt: “We do not have to accept our technology’s default settings—they can be adapted, and eventually redesigned, to serve a new and better set of purposes…”

[40:24] The Rich Young Ruler Who Said Yes - tinyurl.com/CT-Zinzendorf

[44:45] The Patient Ferment of the Early Church - tinyurl.com/Alan-Kreider

[45:50] Other Books by Andy - andy-crouch.com/

[48:11] The Church: God’s Primary Way of Getting Things Done in the World (Story)

[Outro Music] Psalm 116 by Poor Bishop Hooper - www.everypsalm.com/give

[recorded: April 18, 2022]

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