history — Podcast Episodes

S10E3—Humility: Can Enhanced Humans Imitate Jesus?

Season 10, Post, Podcast EpisodeAdam GraberJuly 30, 2024humility, transhumanism, pride, virtue, history, electricity, enhancement

S8E8—People of the Screen—with John Dyer

Have Christians—the People of the Book—become the People of the Screen? Chris talks with John Dyer about his newest book People of the Screen. We explore how evangelicals created the digital Bible and how it is shaping Christians interpretation of scripture today.

What’s the future of print Bibles? Find out what John thinks will happen as the Christians go deeper into digital. Plus, hear about John’s latest Bible project: the Y’all Version.

S8E3 - Turning Devices Into Instruments—with Andy Crouch

Author Andy Crouch says that we’re doing it all wrong—smartphones aren’t giving us the life we’re looking for. We asked him how to fix it, plus whether he’d ever own a robot dog.

S6E8 - Creating Alexa: Interview with Inventor Jeff Adams

Podcast Episode, Season 6Chris RidgewayFebruary 28, 2022alexa, voice assistant, history, technological determinism

S1E1 - Ancient Social Media

When did social media start? In 2004 when Facebook started? Nope, try the 1st century! Social media is anything but new and early Christians played a key role in its growth, Tom Standage argues in his book, Writing in the Wall. We dive in to look his claim that social media existed in the Roman Empire . . .