The Dying Dinosaur Of Centralized Education
Dinosaur media empires are dying. Dinosaur business empires are dying. Dinosaur political empires are dying. But perhaps the most exciting (and important) news on the dino front is that dinosaur models of education are dying, too. By God’s grace and right in the nick o’ time, an age of radical decentralization is beginning to dawn all around us, and while […]
God’s (Better Than Sci-Fi) Gift Of Health Tech
The means by which God often chooses to accomplish His purposes and bring glory to Himself often mystify, confuse, and even anger us. He frequently chooses to employ what seem to be very crude physical tools (all of which are His property to use as He sees fit, of course), the likes of which we […]
Soaring Above The “Need” For State Managed Roads
One of the biggest (supposed) hurdles routinely trotted out by those clinging to (or lazing in) a “we need the State to manage our lives” mentality is the subject of roads. As in, “if the State didn’t build and manage roads, what on earth would we do?!” Because obviously there wouldn’t even be roads if […]
Preparing For Terminator, Part 1: Identifying Our God-Given Talents In An Age Of Radical Change
We live in an age of radical change, challenge, and opportunity. This hit again as I read through an interesting article, The End of Employees, posted yesterday at The Wall Street Journal. The piece chronicled yet another profoundly challenging economic reality facing those enmeshed in the Corporate/Statist approach to life. The challenge in question centers on the fact that […]
From One Ark To Many: How God Is Preserving His People And Purging His Enemies
Contrary to popular opinions currently dominating American evangelicalism (and thereby leading the rest of American culture down the drain), it isn’t God’s people who are destined to be swept off the face of His earth. It isn’t the people of God who ultimately lose out here in “the real world”. It isn’t supernaturally saved, Spirit-filled New Creatures […]
Flying Taxis, Freedom, Prosperity, and Decentralization
Trump/Clinton notwithstanding, things are getting better. Much better. And fast. God is not only preserving His people, but He’s raising up life-, liberty-, and prosperity-enhancing technology all around them. Decentralization is coming, phony empires are crumbling, and the Kingdom of God is advancing. Back in June, we posted How One Inevitable (And Fast-Approaching) Tech Will Radically Change Our […]
From Babel To Pentecost: How The Kingdom Of God Is Built Upon The Ruins Of Enemy Empires
From the rubble of Babel through the fire of Pentecost, a Kingdom is rising. A Kingdom has come. Even now this Kingdom is conquering everything, building itself upon the ruins of all wannabes and pretend empires built by men who will not have Christ to rule over them. That’s what’s going on here, Christian. That’s why things […]
How One Inevitable (And Fast-Approaching) Tech Will Radically Change Our World
Believe it or not, things are getting better. Much better. All the time. Things are getting much better in many ways, yet we’re not inclined to notice ’em because of so many other things getting so much worse so quickly. And let’s face it: We’re much more inclined to dwell on the negative – the disaster […]
“God’s Gifts Of Technology And Decentralization” – The Hell Razer Report Podcast (Episode 9)
In this edition of The Hell Razer Report podcast, we explore the purpose and nature of technology, with an emphasis on the opportunities God is providing right here and now for the radical decentralization of power, as well as the economic and creative liberation of individuals, families, and local church bodies. You can access the program by clicking here. […]
Technology, Opportunity, Hope and Decentralization – Fire Breathing Christian Podcast Episode 8
In this episode we take a look at the incredible blessing that God is even now making available through His provision of rapidly improving technology. We explore several ways in which technology is being purposefully used by God to challenge and equip His people while also paving the way for radical decentralization of economic, industrial, […]
How God’s Gift Of Technology Is Forcing Us To Think And Grow Biblically
Another day, another news story reporting on how automation is about to replace large numbers of human workers. Along with this comes the predictable combo of unbiblical joy and unbiblical fear – unbiblical joy in that those ridiculous McWorkers campaigning for fifteen bucks an hour are about to be replaced by R2-D2, and unbiblical fear that […]
Most working class jobs will soon be automated away. How are we going to deal with that?
“Most occupations that pay less than $20 an hour are likely to be automated into obsolescence.” Should this sentence frighten us? If so, why? And what, if anything, does this tell us about our faith? The sentence in question plays a central role in an interesting article entitled Robots Are Coming For Your Job, published this week […]
Answering a question about the Enterprise (or Galactica or Millennium Falcon) to come.
Yesterday’s post (Fear Not: The Future Is Christian) revisited a topic that we just love to touch on here from time to time, that being the awesome future prepared and secured by God in which His supernaturally saved and sanctified people will learn, grow, explore, cultivate, and adventure forever unencumbered by sin in a restored creation. Well over a year […]
Fear Not: The Future Is Christian
One of the great things about a new Star Wars flick blowing through the land is the incredible opportunity that it gives Christians to engage, process, and clarify to a watching culture what is truly beautiful, what is truly ugly, what is truly good, what is truly bad, why it all matters and where it’s all really going from […]
Technology, Family, And Our Awesome Opportunity For Decentralization
I don’t know about you, but I like good news. Especially The Good News, which thankfully carries along with it an infinite amount of lesser (but still incredibly powerful) good news through which we can actually do great things right here and now. (See: The Awesome Gospel.) And probably like you, I could really use […]
Warp speed fantasies, realities, and the never-ending adventure to come.
In a recent article posted at The Daily Mail, the University of Sydney’s Professor Geraint Lewis talked about the possibility of something like warp drive from Star Trek becoming a reality in light of Einstein’s theory of relativity. While the article was loaded with enough qualifiers to make it anything but an endorsement of the inevitability […]
Our Star Trek just got one step closer to reality.
Back in October, we asked the question: Enterprise, Falcon, or Galactica? What will Christians use to explore the restored cosmos? It appears that Enterprise may have jumped out to an early lead of sorts. According to a report posted by The Mirror earlier this week, something akin to “Star Trek impulse drive” may have actually been developed: Flying to […]
Why the supercool hi-tech future terrifies us.
Having grown up immersed in a combo of (often) dystopic sci-fi and laughably bad “end times” views of Bible prophecy, I was once a very bold pessimist when it came to the long-term prospects for technology in particular and the future of humanity in general here on God’s green earth. Ironically, it was the “Christian” Left Behind-style worldview that offered the most […]
Isn’t our robotic future exciting? (Or: Should Christians fear or embrace technology?)
China has announced plans to construct an all-robot manufacturing plant. And this scares some people. There are good reasons for healthy concern (not to be confused with fear). A whole lotta folks and families are about to have their economic worlds – and overall worldviews – fundamentally rocked. They’re going to learn the hard way that the “reality” […]
Four Family-Empowering Techs That Christians Should Master
For all the “end times” wackiness unfolding around us, there’s a whole lot to be excited about in a very good way right here and right now in God’s creation. Sure, American culture is coming apart at the seams on a macro level in pretty much every realm of life as a consequence of its proud, ongoing rebellion against […]
The Reality of Transhumanism and the Glory of God
We see and hear all kinds of crazy things these days…or at least we categorize them as “crazy” so that we might more comfortably push them off to the side, safely out of focus and away from serious consideration. And while that can seem to work for a while, it never really does. In the end, […]
Why All Christians Should Own Robots
Every Christian should own robots. If not literally, then at least conceptually. We should definitely own the idea of robots. The present and potential uses of such perpetually improving wonders ought to have us jazzed in ways that no pagan could even dream of matching. But we don’t tend to take that route, do we? [Tweet “Every […]