The Christian world is finally awaking to the reality of the technological captivity of humanity. But one man who has been thinking about this from the beginning is Stuart McAllister. Gleaning wisdom from CS Lewis and many other authors, Stuart helps us navigate the technological world by first helping us understand the underlying problems and what is at stake.  

Stuart is the Director of Ministry for Thinking Out Loud (featuring Cameron McAllister and Nathan Rittenhouse) and the Director of Leadership and Deployment for Restoration Presbyterian Church in Dacula, Georgia. Stuart is an in-demand speaker, author, and thought leader who has contributed chapters to several books and co-wrote Faith That Lasts: A Father and Son on Cultivating Lifelong Belief (InterVarsity Press, 2021). 

We mentioned a lot of resources in this episode! If you're interested in this topic, we recommend you check them out. Here is a list of the works referenced, which are all books unless otherwise noted: 

CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man 

Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society  

Peter Berger, Brigitte Berger, and Hansfried Kellner, Homeless Mind  

Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust 

Neil Postman, Technopoly 

Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings 

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 

Rod Dreher, Living in Wonder 

Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur (poem) 

Robin Phillips and Joshua Pauling, Are We All Cyborgs Now 

Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants 

Paul Kingsnorth, The Cross and the Machine (article) 

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