Technology as Mammon, with special guest Andy Crouch
Good Faith
Good Faith
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
How is it possible that the people who have harnessed technological progress to become the wealthiest nation in history are still so remarkably unhappy? Is it possible that we have asked technology to do too much? Is it perhaps impacting our ability to be fully formed humans? Join this fascinating conversation with David, Curtis, and Curtis' old roommate Andy Crouch, who guides us in thinking about our relationship with technology and how to be more human.
Show Notes:
-Andy Crouch - The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
-Jonathan Haidt - Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
-Sign up for David's French Press newsletter
-Check out Redeeming Babel's job opening here
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. This is Curtis, and I am excited to tell you about a new feature of the GoodFaith podcast, and it's called Campfire Stories. |
| 0:11.0 | Now, in a great campfire, everyone has the opportunity to share their stories. And so, in Campfire Stories, we want to hear from you. |
| 0:20.0 | We want to hear a story about what you are doing along the themes of the GoodFaith podcast, perhaps it's something about how you're living out your relationships with political polarization, how you are trying to reflect the image of God in your institution and organization, or what you're doing with your money, or your vocation, anything that has been sparked by the themes that we've covered here in the GoodFaith podcast is fear game. |
| 0:47.0 | It doesn't matter if it's a big story, a small story, or something in between, as long as it's a story about what you are doing in your life. |
| 0:55.0 | We're not so much interested in hearing just thoughts, we want to hear stories of doing. |
| 1:00.0 | So, we'll put a link in the show notes where you can just click on it and then supply us the basic outlines of your story of doing, of living out the themes of GoodFaith podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | And we'll look at it and we may invite you to share that story on a GoodFaith blog, a social media, or perhaps even invite you to come on the GoodFaith show yourself and talk to me and share your story. |
| 1:25.0 | Like, how cool would that be? I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to talk with you. So, please consider joining the Campfire by actually joining actively and sharing your story with others gathered around the Campfire. |
| 1:38.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:41.0 | Welcome to the GoodFaith podcast. I'm David French with Curtis Chang and we've got a treat for you today. We have a guest and we're going to talk about technology and it's going to be interesting. I promise you that. |
| 2:02.0 | So, Curtis. Yes. I'm not the guest. I know you're not the guest, but I'm friends with the guest. And David, one of the things that's fun to do the podcast with you is that we're drawing on like 20 plus years of friendship between you and me. |
| 2:17.0 | It's pretty amazing. Our guests actually beats you out by a good solid decade. So, I've been friends with Andy Couch for 30 plus years. |
| 2:28.0 | We've been friends since we started ministry and university together. We have been housemates together. We have held all of our financial possessions in common for two years. |
| 2:40.0 | I do know that. |
| 2:41.0 | Yes. I'm sure we'll talk about that because it's actually I noticed that we got a call out in his book that experience. And let me just tell you, if you want to get close to somebody uncomfortably close to somebody, share all of your possessions and have the rule that you cannot buy anything more than |
| 2:57.0 | Andy, what was it? What was the dollar? |
| 2:59.0 | $10. |
| 3:00.0 | Oh my God. That was $19.90. |
| 3:02.0 | So, yeah, that's tyranny. That's got friendship. That's tyranny. |
| 3:07.0 | Well, Andy will have some thoughts about it precisely. Who is being overthrown by that practice? |
| 3:13.0 | But it was if you want a practice that illustrates how deeply embedded ones, conceptions of money and personhood are. |
| 3:23.0 | That was a fantastic in a painful way, fantastic experience of experience. |
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