Tag: social media

• Learning How to Be Small and Unimpressive

  

  In the “society of the spectacle,” according to Guy Debord, whatever appears is real, and whatever is real appears. He didn’t mean it literally, in the sense that mere appearance determines actual reality. He meant it culturally, in the sense that people come to value what is represented, and only what is represented. People ignore…

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  September 20, 2021

  What happens at church

  Christian values, commentary, Mark 9:33-37, social media

• Gathering While Not Gathering

  

  We had an abbreviated Sunday morning worship service online, via Facebook Live, at our usual gathering time on Sunday morning. Here’s what I noticed: I don’t know what I’m doing. [How does Facebook Live work? What page do I have to be on? OK, how do I make a comment? Wait, what … ? Etc.]…

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  March 23, 2020

  What happens at church

  Christian living, Christianity, cultural studies, John 9, social distancing, social media, worship

• Media Environment

  Although I am still thinking about the problem of the ineffectiveness of human-divine communication, it has occurred to me that our own non-divine communication processes are not always remarkably more effective, and that we are at present facing not exactly similar but remarkably similar challenges in human to human communication. Maybe the challenges are really…

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  October 19, 2016

  Thinking Out Loud

  Christianity, civil society, communication, incarnation, social media

• Beginning, Again

  I think out loud a lot. I do that because I think a lot, and because for me talking is a vehicle for thinking. The practice doesn’t seem to bother anyone – at least, the cats and the dog have never complained to me about it, and I usually do it when they’re the only…

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  July 25, 2016

  Explaining Myself

  possibility, purpose, social media