Comments on: Do you have a radical Christian faith or just a radicalized one? https://mikefrost.net/radical-christian-faith-just-radicalized-one/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:38:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Michael Frost https://mikefrost.net/radical-christian-faith-just-radicalized-one/#comment-3062 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:38:35 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27303#comment-3062 In reply to michael.

Here it is. “The Challenges and Opportunities in Considering the Internet as a 4th Space for Ministry” by Jessie Cruickshank
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/7923b3_835d5d7888b04a0fa5f0f9cd16555d85.pdf

]]> By: michael https://mikefrost.net/radical-christian-faith-just-radicalized-one/#comment-3059 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:32:04 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27303#comment-3059 Michael is there a link to paper on the Internet as a 4th Space by Jessie Cruickshank. this is a very fascinating point she makes about social media use and self reflection and empathy. very keen tor had more about this.

]]> By: Michael Frost https://mikefrost.net/radical-christian-faith-just-radicalized-one/#comment-3052 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:23:32 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27303#comment-3052 In reply to Dave Berlach.

Given how off-the-grid you are I feel all the more honoured by how regularly you read and comment on my blogs. Thanks, mate. Great insights, as usual.

]]> By: Dave Berlach https://mikefrost.net/radical-christian-faith-just-radicalized-one/#comment-3048 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:15:40 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27303#comment-3048 Wow! No one wants to weigh in on this one! Even when you end with a muslim-homesexual-atheist-evolutionary-abortionist! Perhaps you should have started the post with that – most people don’t have the attention span to read a blog post this long anymore! 😉

For the most part, many people really do just want to be told what to believe. So a curated feed of agreeable content that sures up our paradigm is the perfect solution. I think it feeds our tendency towards Acedia – a forgotten sin I’d never heard of until a recent article I read – basically “sloth” but perhaps more accurately described as “spiritual apathy”. Technology and SM offers us the option of not thinking deeply – about ourselves reflectively but also about things outside ourselves – and so we slowly allow our technology to shape the way we behave, tending towards laziness and as you say, radicalisation.

It’s pretty widely accepted now in the neurological fields that technology actually does re-wire our brains. I recently read a blog post by Philip Yancey where he wrote about his experience of the internet changing his reading habits to the extent that he struggles to read the weighty tomes that used to regularly – the tool has re-shaped him.

At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I’ve not had a Facebook account for about ten years and deleted my Twitter account about a year ago, along with the Instagram app from my phone. And we now live in an area without mobile reception and no internet (it’s available via satellite but we’ve chosen not to connect). We wouldn’t have chosen to have no internet if we could have easily connected and it surprised me how we forget that we can actually choose these tools and our engagement with them. For me being free of them (at home at least; I drive to the end of my street and am back on the grid) is the most refreshing and liberating thing. We’re hoping that it will be good for us and our kids – teaching / re-teaching us how to engage well with each other, to think critically, to be willing to listen and be empathetic…

Also, I’m pretty sure that there will be no social media when God’s Kingdom comes in all it’s fullness! 😉

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