Doubletake: The Experience Machines, Part One

The World and Everything In It

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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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About three years ago Stewart Freeman went online, into virtual reality, to meet girls. Instead he found Christ through a California church called Cornerstone, one of a handful of ministries trying to preach the Gospel in a new digital world called the “metaverse.” Mark Zuckerberg predicts that within a few years a billion people will be in the metaverse–but at what cost? It’s part one of our two-part series exploring the implications of technology that shapes our perception of the world around us.Support sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth at wng.org/donate. (https://gift.idonate.com/world-news/WNG)Music licensed via podcastmusic.com (http://podcastmusic.com/) from ALIBI Music, 5 Alarm, Atomica MusicShort Story “Pygmalion’s Spectacles” by Stanley G. Weinbaum, produced by The MixVR

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0:00.0	From world radio, this is double take.
0:05.0	Encourage them.
0:06.0	But last time, help them to rethink.
0:09.0	It can be shaped by the world.
0:11.0	Then I'll be shaped by the thinking of this place.
0:14.0	But to be shaped by a thinking in the mind of Christ.
0:17.0	Jason Poling is pastor of Cornerstone Church of Ubicity, California.
0:21.0	Help us to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, the Manasaro's,
0:25.0	who won the joy for all of us in Jesus' name.
0:28.0	Before I go, I went to a Sunday afternoon service.
0:31.0	They let me record it, but the sound is pretty terrible.
0:34.0	Sorry about that.
0:36.0	To close, they served communion.
0:38.0	Here's Michael Oosdevins, known as Pastor Goose.
0:42.0	And communion is something that we do as part of...
0:45.0	About 20 people attended.
0:47.0	It was an unusual group.
0:50.0	A lot of them had tales.
0:53.0	There was an enormous orange cap.
0:58.0	A raccoon in shorts and a red t-shirt.
1:01.0	A Victorian era footman.
1:03.0	Another raccoon, this one silvery and feminine.
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