Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World w/ Andy Crouch - S2:E5

“I’m the furthest thing from hopeless about our current world and the technological empire we live in because we’ve seen it before. We’ve seen the renewal that can happen when a very small group of people, albeit somewhat crazy people, say we’re just not living on the empire's terms; we’re doing this other thing. And then crazy stuff begins to happen.”

www.praxislabs.org/life - Video Introduction and Book Purchase
tinyurl.com/andy-book-excerpt

[1:30] Introducing Andy Crouch

[3:20] A book about what it means, and how hard it is, to be a person in our world.

[5:02] Preparing to write: despair, anguish, and self-loathing.

[5:45] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

[8:28] excerpt: “If there is one word that sums up the crisis of personhood in our time, for the powerful and powerless alike, it is loneliness…”

[11:00] We are so swimming in isolation, that we don’t know what it would be like to not be lonely. We live in a cultural environment that is structured to make it difficult to pay attention to other people.

[16:20] Relating to persons as robots: creatures that look just like us, but manufactured, not begotten, to do the work humans don’t want to do; their worth is only in their utility.

[19:23] Leanne Payne: We either contemplate or we exploit.

[23:12] The politics of recognition is a demand to be affirmed. Real relationships, however, don't ratify everything in a person; we’re going to urge one another to go from bent ways to good deeds.

[26:32] A household is more than just family; it sees a person and what that person could be, not just what I currently am.

[27:32] Church for Church Leaders: netzer.org/donate

[33:50] The Gospel of Jesus Christ inverts the Gospel of the Empire

[37:20] The Empire of Technology gives us a template for what it means to matter, to make a difference, and to have power. The way of Jesus is just different.

[39:31] Excerpt: “We do not have to accept our technology’s default settings—they can be adapted, and eventually redesigned, to serve a new and better set of purposes…”

[40:24] The Rich Young Ruler Who Said Yes - tinyurl.com/CT-Zinzendorf

[44:45] The Patient Ferment of the Early Church - tinyurl.com/Alan-Kreider

[45:50] Other Books by Andy - andy-crouch.com/

[48:11] The Church: God’s Primary Way of Getting Things Done in the World (Story)

[Outro Music] Psalm 116 by Poor Bishop Hooper - www.everypsalm.com/give

[recorded: April 18, 2022]

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