The Four: Brands That Want to Own Our Hearts
We’ve entrusted Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Amazon to fill the holes in our hearts—holes they could never possibly fill.

We’ve entrusted Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Amazon to fill the holes in our hearts—holes they could never possibly fill.

Drew Dixon and Tyler Burns host returning guest Luke T. Harrington to talk how to navigate an outrage culture.

In The Circle, no one is ever known, because knowledge about others is mistaken for actually knowing others.

The Christ and Pop Culture members group, and an impromptu Hamilton Lip Sync Battle, might be the only good things you’ll find on Facebook.
You don’t need a dislike button, and you don’t even want a dislike button.

Social media can’t be our only means of spreading God’s presence.

Social networking can show us additional blips of each others’ stories that aid us in the work of knowing and being known.

Sometimes feeling the right things takes practice. Sometimes you have to rehearse the outward forms before the inward form takes root.

It hurts everywhere. In Beirut, in Paris, in Syria and in Missouri, USA, in all the many, many places I forgot to name.
Our hunger for human flourishing outstrips our patience for the work necessary to achieve it.

Statistically, not everyone is going to want to be your friend. The best thing to do is probably just to thank God for the time they were in your life and move on.

I’ll probably stay on Facebook, because moving somewhere else would take time and energy. And this is what drives most of the evil in the world—not people deliberately messing things up, but people doing what’s easy.

The Internet has restored pop music to a place where it can bring generations together instead of driving them apart, even if your grandma still hasn’t heard of the rap DJ who’s almost as old as she is.


Yeah, sure, Facebook is evil—but only because we’re all evil in the exact same way: we all seek to control the ones around us.

Christians seem to have a disconnect between what holiness looks like in everyday life and what it looks like online.
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