Technology Is Neither Good, nor Bad, nor Neutral with Tony Reinke and Samuel James

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

How should the Christian think about technology? How should we use technology? Are we better off as Luddites who avoid new technologies? In this episode—ironically, interrupted by many technological glitches!—Kevin talks with two of our leading writers when it comes to God, technology, and culture. Although Tony is a techno-optimist and Samuel is more of a techno-pessimist (or “realist” might be better), they both agree that technology can be a gift from God and also has the potential to reshape us in harmful ways. Listen in for a discussion that is part biblical musing, part intellectual analysis, and part practical application.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro and Sponsor

1:58 Guest 1: Samuel James

4:03 Guest 2: Tony Reinke

6:16 Technology Optimism and Pessimism

17:41 The Tech-Blessed 21st Century

25:49 Dangers of Tech and Digital Discourse

48:40 Sponsor 2

49:18 Should We Throw Out Our Smartphones?

56:03 How Should We Parent concerning Tech?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome to Life and Books and Everything.
0:17.4	I'm Kevin DeYoung, and I'm here with Tony Ranky and Samuel Samuel James who I'll have them say a little bit more about themselves in just a moment.
0:26.5	Good to have all of our listeners back. It's been a little bit before we've had, since we've had one of these interviews,
0:33.1	we had to have somebody reschedule so we'll get that interview at the end of the season sometime later this spring.
0:39.9	But good to be back with a couple of friends here today to talk about technology.
0:46.2	Q the Napoleon Dynamite technology song, if you're of that, Gen X Vintage.
0:53.0	I do want to thank our sponsor Crossway and mention in
0:57.5	particular the ESV Study Bible. Really, everyone can benefit from a really good study Bible,
1:05.0	and there's plenty of good ones out there, but I am partial to the ESV study Bible. I think
1:10.6	it's the best one. Over a million copies sold.
1:13.6	ESV Study Bible is created by a team of almost 100 leading Bible scholars and teachers from nine countries,
1:20.3	20 denominations, 50 seminaries, colleges, universities. It has 20,000 study notes.
1:29.3	Here's a word from John Piper, The scope and theological faithfulness of the ESV study Bible.
1:32.3	Study notes is breathtaking.
1:35.3	And there's a student study Bible.
1:37.3	There's a concise study Bible, which I found a lot of people at our church-like.
1:41.3	If you don't want to lug around the huge orange hardback version, there's a
1:45.7	concise study Bible. So great gift for yourself or for others. And if you go to crossway.org
1:53.4	slash plus, you can find out how to get 30% off with your Crossway Plus account. Speaking of Crossway, Samuel James, Samuel, what do you do?
2:05.1	You work for Crossway.
2:06.6	You also have lots of insightful commentary on various things online.
2:12.9	Tell us a little bit about yourself.
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