Some more favorite quotes:
God is more interested in our theology of worship than in our technology of worship.
Instrumentalism is partially true in the sense that individuals are free to use phones however they please, but determinism also has an element of truth in that society at large tends to use the technology in a certain way.
In many parts of America today, the ritual of getting a car functions in the same way that becoming a hunter would have functioned for some Native Americans long ago.
What the Scriptures call our “flesh” is that part of us that is always bent toward self, at the expense of others and the exclusion of God. Our flesh, then, will always gravitate toward technology that favors the individual over the group.
The people who deeply trusted technology to give them security and meaning had those very things stripped away from them by technological change. Notice that God was able to change their behavior, but he didn’t have to take away their free will or destroy their creation to do so. All he had was to introduce technological change.
The Tower of Babel should remind us that social networks are not just toys—they are part of the most powerful technology in the world.
God took a group of slaves and gave them a set of objects, images, rituals, and language that would transform them into an entirely new culture, distinct from everyone around them.
the Hebrews were effectively living in the Silicon Valley of their day, watching the first major communication revolution. Although they didn’t create the first alphabet, early forms of Hebrew are directly related to those first alphabets.
For the first time since Babel, there was a common language among the peoples of the earth. This time, God employed that common language as the means of transmitting the gospel to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth.
God is telling Israel that the images, forms, and tools through which we approach him do, in fact, matter to him.
We, too, need to become aware of how mediums work, and we will say that they do at least three things: they communicate meaning, they create new cultures, and they shape our thinking patterns.
Our souls are stained with sin, our bodies are destined for death, and our creations cause as many problems as they solve, but God has promised to restore them all.
