Our daily podcast is called Things Unseen, and a warm welcome to you if this is the first time you've joined us for these, well, really few minutes long reflections when we think about various topics and various issues that are important to us as

Christians. But in fact, on things unseen, we sometimes think about things that are very seen.

And we try to do that, however, to borrow an expression from Hebrews 11, as seeing him who is invisible.

More than any other culture in history, ours is one that I think has made it increasingly

difficult for Christians to clear their minds of the noises and the voices that crowd in on us.

And we become a generation of people who possess vast amounts of fairly detached pieces of

information.

One thing that's changed, I think, is that we used to learn things by researching books

and finding out information usually in its proper context.

So say you had a question about George Washington that used to be, finding out information usually in its proper context.

So say you had a question about George Washington,

that used to be that you had to find a book on the American colonies

in the 18th century, and then find the sections

that dealt with George Washington.

And two things happened.

One was that in the process, you learned more

than you'd set out to learn,

but also importantly and secondly, you find what you are looking for in its proper context.

So it wasn't like keyboarding in your question and getting a specific one paragraph answer

that was isolated from everything else that you might know.

I was a bit slow on the uptake in technology, and actually it was only reading the work of

some of my students at seminary that made me realize I could do what they were doing.

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