Well, this week is exciting for me.

It's the scheduled launch week for my new book, God, Technology, and Christian Life.

I've been wanting to write this and publish this book for several years now.

It's a dream of mine.

Back when I wrote my book, 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You, it proved to be a book

that was harder to write than I expected.

It was harder to write because I couldn't find a baseline theology of technology that

would orient my thinking towards this smartphone specifically.

I came to see that there's like a theological gap, a lacking foundation in how Christians

think about modern day technology, digital technology, big tech, Silicon Valley, those things,

and it surprised me.

Without that foundation, I had to sort of build as much of it as I could myself, and so

I wrote a little 10-page introduction in my smartphone book.

I called it a little theology of technology, and it was published there on pages 29 to

39 of 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You, is very little, 10 pages, indeed.

But I knew this little theology of technology would need to become a larger theology of

technology.

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

In other words, we need to ask the question, what is God's relationship to big tech?

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

we depend on for our food every day?

That's what I'm trying to figure out, because only once we can answer this question, can

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