When people go to heaven, do they bring their phones?

Curiously Kaitlyn

Phil Vischer

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week we answer a question that’s on every technology-addicted kids’ mind: will we bring our phones to heaven? Theology and technology expert Andy Crouch joins Kaitlyn to talk about a theology of creation and new creation, human creativity and culture, and the story we will spend eternity enjoying.

1:07 - Theme Song

7:10 - Are Phones Magic?

13:25 - The Garden vs the City

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20:09 - The Redemption of Creativity

30:33 - Technology as a Distraction

36:42 - End Credits

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Curiously Caitlin, where we take a kid question about God, theology, or the Bible,
0:05.6	and find a scholar to answer it. We've talked about creation and new creation a lot on this show.
0:11.2	We've answered questions about how and why God made everything. We've talked about how we're
0:16.0	awaiting a new creation where everything is redeemed and restored. We've talked about how the
0:20.6	story of the Bible, from Genesis to the book of Revelation,'ve talked about how the story of the Bible,
0:22.0	from Genesis to the book of Revelation, is a story of God loving the creation he made.
0:28.2	Today we have a question that gets really in the weeds of all this creation, new creation
0:32.0	stuff, because it's easy to imagine how some parts of human life will translate into the new creation,
0:38.9	how we'll keep gardening and building houses
0:41.1	and cultivating friendships forever.
0:44.1	But then other things are a little trickier.
0:46.7	Will we still have doctors in the new creation
0:49.0	since no one's supposed to be getting sick?
0:51.9	Will we need cars or trains or will we be able to teleport like Jesus
0:56.2	does after his resurrection? And now we can add to that list of tricky questions, a new one from
1:02.4	our curious kid today. Will we take our phones to heaven with us?
1:08.9	I don't know.
1:14.2	That doesn't make any sense.
1:15.6	What?
1:17.3	Curiously.
1:24.8	Andy Crouch, thank you so much for joining me today.
1:26.2	It is a delight.
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