catapult magazine

Items tagged technology

• Potholes on Sesame Street

  The problems with the popular television show and with the medium of television in general outweigh the potential educational value.

• Tuning in without tuning out

  How does the agricultural commentary of Jesus apply to our relationship with modern technology?

• Race against ignorance

  Wendell Berry's Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition cautions against science as religion and creation as a set of statistics.

• Still standing, but out of the shadows

  A new documentary on the Funk Brothers gives proper credit to the fathers of Motown in a groundbreaking interactive DVD.

• Forwarding the Kingdom

  Does technology mobilize or fragment the body of believers?

• Privacy in our Modern Age

  Fortunately or unfortunately, we leave digital clues behind wherever we go.

• The art of communication

  An interview with Quentin Schultze, head of the communication arts department at Calvin College and author of Habits of the High-Tech Heart.

• The issue in process

  From driving brainstorms to way past our bedtime, an account of how our issues come into being.

• Experiments in photography

  How books of ?perfect? photos from special events gave way to reveling in the beauty of the ordinary.

• Stimulating imagination

  On finding the energy to change the world through environmental practices.

• Don’t talk to me about...anything

  What do we do when polite conversation has become taboo?

• Waiting, on the lake

  Lessons from a venerable pair of birch trees on Pleasant Lake.

• <em>Evil Genius</em> series is conscious techno-fiction

  A review of the young adult novel Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks.

• Old way, new way

  A new movement among women is going back to the basics.

• A common thread

  On the beauty of choosing the "by hand" way, while honoring the divine purposes of all human activity.

• Habits of the hands

  Spring rolls around again with broken earth and broken promises.

• Confessions of a techno-literary Luddite

  The question of whether Google is making us "stoopid" may only begin to assess what we stand to lose.

• Technology as the mediator of experience

  A reflection on the purposes of hands and how technology can both enhance and hinder those purposes.

• The pleasant results of a shrinking world

  A reflection on what's good about online social networking.

• Live Feed: Christians and Facebook are in a relationship.

  In what ways are Christians responding to new technology, to the detriment or benefit of the Church?

• Virtually at home

  Describing the world of Facebook and naming its alternative ecology.

• The birth of the universe is not the cause of the world

  Concerning another kind of birth story: creation.

• Company’s here!

  Word play leads to serious food play when it comes to communion.

• Roxxxy the Sex Robot

  How what we believe shapes what we make and what we make shapes what we believe.

• Do FarmVillains dream of analog sheep?

  On the challenges of staying awake in a digital world.

• The age of stinky books is upon us

  Confessions of a recent convert to the e-reader.

• Page turning and the illusion of permanence

  A defense of the book and, above all, the living Word.

• A kindled imagination

  How a book loyalist came to appreciate the company of an e-reader.

• Instagramification

  A review of Instagram, a photo sharing social networking platform.

• When a house is not a home

  What makes a family a true community?