Sometimes it can feel as if every day there's some new technology set to revolutionize our lives.

Whether it's AI, a new social media platform, or the latest iPhone, digital technology marches ever on,

promising us more convenience, more knowledge, more everything. My guest today is Samuel James, and in our fascinating conversation,

he reflects on the ways that new digital technologies themselves,

not just the content that we consume through them, shape us at a profound level.

Whether it's how we think about our relationships, how we engage with information,

or even how we

define the good life. Drawing on the insights of influential thinkers like Marshall McLuhan and

Nicholas Carr, Samuel sets forth a distinctly Christian theology of technology, one that is

profoundly realistic about its power, both for good and evil. Samuel James is an associate acquisitions editor at Crossway and the author of a regular newsletter

on the intersection of Christianity, technology, and culture.

His new book with Crossway is called Digital Liturgies, Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age.

Let's get started.

Let's get started.

Well, Samuel, thank you for joining me again on the Crossway podcast. Thanks, Matt. Glad to be here.

So today we're going to talk about technology and our lives as Christians and the ways that that technology impacts us, perhaps in

counterintuitive ways and ways that we don't often think of. But before we kind of jump into

some of that, the meat of that, probably the biggest news right now in the world of digital

tech over the past few months has been the rise of chat GPT, this AI powered chat bot that everyone's been playing with

and experimenting with these days.

I wonder if you could just, for those who aren't familiar, explain briefly what is chat

GPT and why has it taken the online world by storm?

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