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What Next TBD: When Your Church Surveils Your Phone

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Churches are using accountability apps to keep tabs on their members' behavior. But if your pastor wants to monitor your phone, can you truly consent? Guest: Dhruv Mehrotra Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.

0:03.0

Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.

0:08.0

You'll get to know the difference.

0:10.0

New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.

0:15.0

Until 9th of September, from 11 a.m.,

0:18.0

participating restaurants only, subject to availability.

0:27.8

For I am not ashamed of the gospel.

0:32.5

You only need to spend a few seconds on Grace Point Ministry's YouTube channel to understand that this is not a conventional church.

0:35.9

It's the power of God for salvation to all who dare believe in.

0:39.3

So we share in suffering.

0:40.9

We fight like a good soldier of Jesus Christ,

0:43.6

turning away from youthful passions to truth and compassion,

0:46.8

students in college, gathering together, losing our lives because we've got all the game.

0:53.8

Grace Point is an evangelical Southern Baptist ministry,

0:56.8

with more than 800 outposts in college towns around the U.S.

1:00.9

And that's how Grant, how Wailin, found his way to Grace Point's Church in Berkeley, California.

1:06.8

So while Grant was at Berkeley, he started attending Grace Point Church, and he became a full-time

1:14.3

congregant. That's Drew of Muratra, an investigative reporter at Wired. And after about a year of

1:21.0

being a member of the church, he felt comfortable enough to come out to his church leader as being a gay man.

1:30.0

And when he did that, you know, the church leader was accepting of him, which was surprising to Grant.

1:35.2

But there was a caveat, which was that Grant had to install this software, Covenant Eyes on his phone, which the church leader, according to Grant, the church leader told him that

1:44.7

the app would help him with, quote, all of his urges.

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