Hello everyone, Tony Ranky here with a solo episode just me today.

An exciting day for me today because my new book is out, God, technology and the Christian

life.

That's the title and I get to share with you a few thoughts today on why I wrote it.

I've really dreamt of writing this book for several years now.

Back when I wrote 12 ways your phone is changing you, it proved hard to write, harder than

I expected because I couldn't find a baseline theology of technology that would sort of

root my thinking with smartphone habits specifically.

So I kind of came to discover that there was a theological gap in how Christians think

about modern day technology, which surprised me.

And without that foundation, I had to build one of my own.

So I wrote a little 10 page introduction in the smartphone book and I called it a little

theology of technology.

I was published in 12 ways like pages 29 to 39 at the beginning.

Some big categories had to be in place before I addressed Steve Jobs, his iPhone, our

social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

I also knew this smaller theology of technology would need to eventually become a larger theology

of technology.

And I knew if I could pull this off, it would serve a need in the church in the tech age.

But I would have to answer one massive question.

What is God's relationship to big tech?

What does he think of smartphones and space travel, nuclear power and agricultural innovations

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