We can better understand “internet culture(s)” by examining three categories: fraternity, fandom, and fantasy. We explore Austin Gravely's article in this latest episode.

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As Austin wrote, "Internet culture is, for most people, the most attractive thing to do at any time of the day or night. Even if you personally participate little in internet culture, your neighbors are likely being reshaped on internet culture’s terms without even realizing it. Sooner or later, you will encounter the formative effects of internet culture in your life. Are you prepared to share the Gospel, defend the Christian faith, and make mature disciples of Christ against a backdrop of the fraternity, fandom, and fantasy that internet culture provides?"

Austin's article at Endeavor: When Internet Culture Becomes the Culture

0:00 - Culture Merges With The Internet

15:50 - Fraternity, Fandom, and Fantasy

28:35 - Digital and Physical Worlds Keep Merging

33:00 - Should Christians Be On The Internet MORE?

Cohosted by Andrew Noble, Joel Jacob, and Austin Gravley. Original Music by Abigail Neale. To learn more about What Would Jesus Tech and to support the show visit whatwouldjesustech.com

What if we understood the human person, body and soul, in the way of Thomas Aquinas (13th-century AD Christian Theologian) or Aristotle (5th-century BC Greek Philosopher)? Why not both?

Timothy Jacobs is a Thomistic scholar who teaches at The Davenant Institute, an organization that retrieves the riches of classical Protestantism to renew and build up the contemporary Church.

In this episode, we discuss how the body and soul relate. In Thomistic thought (which follows Aristotle), there are five primary "Powers" (which can sometimes each be called "Souls" - which can be confusing). Each of these powers has an important role. Some actions within each power (such as memory within the sensitive power) can be replicated by a machine. Other actions cannot be properly said to be done by a machine, no matter how advanced the AI.

0:00 - Intro & Tim Jacobs

6:15 - Thomistic Psychology Overview

21:00 - Mind and Soul Dualism, "Souls" as Thomistic Powers

35:00 - What about organic substrates? Advanced AI? Pikachu?

47:00 - Knowing God (humans) vs Knowing About God (machines)

Tim Jacob's handout on Thomistic Psychology:

Tim's website: https://www.tljacobs.com/

Tim's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCcF_QqLWOatOO5vHHlzK_Hw

Cohosted by Andrew Noble and Joel Jacob. Original Music by Abigail Neale. To learn more about What Would Jesus Tech and to support the show visit whatwouldjesustech.com

In response to our technological age, many want to adapt a set of disciplines. Many of these disciplines are good. But what if, upon reflection, we realized that our solutions are embedded within a deeper technological problem? What if we are reducing persons to inputs and outputs and expecting machine-like productivity instead of recognizing what it means to be human? In this episode, Andrew, Austin, and Joel are joined by theologian and writer Kirsten Sanders. The article that led to this conversation was: What's the deal with "Rules of Life"?

Also referenced in this episode:

Tending the flame

Modern Mothers

For more of Kirsten's writing, please visit her Substack: In Particular.

0:00 - Intro

3:12 - Quick Questions (Writing, Feedback, Fav Tech, Teen Tech Restriction, Aspiring Theologian Advice, Aspiring Writer Advice)

8:52 - "I think sin, and its opposite, grace, is the chief misunderstanding we are having in our technological age."

20:04 - Beyond the self-correcting impulse

28:00 - Technological concerns

33:50 - Insecure Christians and doing "Enough"

45:00 - Is your life a project?

What Would Jesus Tech is cohosted by Andrew Noble, Joel Jacob, and Austin Gravley. Original Music by Abigail Neale. To learn more about What Would Jesus Tech and to support the show, visit whatwouldjesustech.com