Christianity and online life

A resource guide put together for Rev. Bernard Westerveld on Monday 19 April 2010

Books :
Culture making by Andy Crouch
Christian witness in a post-modern world- Harry Lee Poe
Christian cyberspace companion- Jason Baker *a bit old and outdated but still useful
Searching for Intimacy: Pornography, the Internet and the XXX Factor by Lyndon Bowring.
… coming out in 2011 is Tim Challies’s book on Christians and technology. He has put together a
list of articles that share some random (and important) thoughts that will be in the unpublished
book. You can find a list of links to the 5 or 6 short entries here.
Worldliness by CJ Mahaney deals with this subject a bit but all together deals with the solution to
our problem by looking it at a redemptive-historical approach to worldliness in all forms.

Articles :
1. Will computers save the world? On the temptations of technologhy. By R. Albert Mohler
http://alturl.com/z7zm
2. So, are computers good for children& By R. Albert Mohler http://alturl.com/vjj4
3. Are computers the problem of solution? By Ibid., http://alturl.com/fc6u
4. Grand theft deficiency. By Ibid., http://alturl.com/g7ad
5. Blogs and the Survival of Civilization. (Part 1) Ibid.,
6. Blogs and the Survival of Civilization Reconsidered (Part 2) Ibid.,
7. A Common culture in the age of blogging. Ibid.,
8. Blogging in the name of the Lord: An interview with several Christian bloggers-pastors-
theologians. Note: this link will pull you to a page of 7 names in a list at the top. The first
two are the most important: Theologian John Frame and Blogger Tim Challies (FYI:
Challies is dutch, CRC Heidleberg raised, Ontarian raised, Canadian who is without
question the most widely read (but in terms of numbers and variety of followers) blogger in
all of evangelicalism (broadly defined). He is also an unofficial spokesperson for the so-
called New Calvinist movement and his opinions (and links) are always taken serious by
both blogs and the seminary academia (evangelical, reformed, and liberal) as a sort of gage
in where they need to put their efforts. He is also most used in the body of Christ as a book
reviewer. He has written near a thousand book reviews since 2002.)
9. Blogging and comparison with good preaching. An interesting article but one with I would
not agree with 100%
10. F o o l s R u s h I n W h e r e M o n k e y s F e a r To Tr e a d - a r t i c l e
( n e g a t i v e ) o n c h r i s t i a n b l o g s . O p . E d . B y D r. C a r l Tr u e m a n
11. Welcome to wherever you are… by Carl Trueman
12. No texte please, I'm Brittish ! by Carl Trueman
13. Facing off on facebook, blog post by Carl Trueman linking to a real news story that's very
interesting.
14. The Facebook Rebellion Grows -- at least among MMAGs- satrire/opinion
piece by Carl Trueman.
15. Don’t take your ipod to church- Challies. (I was hesitant to send this one to you!)
16. Don’t take your ipod to church- Challies (Part 1.5) Challies
17. Data smog and the Christian life- Challies
18. The soul in cyberspace (interview with a philosopher who is promoting a book)- challies
19. The state of the blogosphere (blogging) -Challies
MP3 Audio downloads:
1. Is technology distracting us to death? By R. Albert Mohler http://alturl.com/xu2v
2. Listening to the Culture at the Cineplex. By R. Albert Mohler http://alturl.com/rybx
3. The Moral Quagmire of Grand Theft Auto By Ibid., Clicking will open up description page
where program can be downloaded
4. Protecting our Children from the media culture By Ibid., Same instructions as number 3.
5. Christians engage the media. Mohler. Not about internet usage in and of itself but more
specifically how Christians out to get and understand the news whether it is from a
newspaper, radio, internet, etc... By Ibid.,
6. Worldly amusements…. Christian song with lyrics freely available (.99 to download)
7. Here is another longer talk that is more comphrehensive   with a Q&A:  by Quentin
Schultze: Beyond the Digital Rat Race: Using Technology Wisely in Our Lives, Work, and
Churches. Without question it is excellent, comprehensive, and time consuming (ironically
enough). It is best to listen on your computer or Ipod to this while doing other tasks over a
cup of coffee.

Internet use is rather wide… I have presumed to limit your intention to person computers, browsing,
and entertainment technology (blogs, facebook, twitter, hulu, youtube,etc…).

List of the most influential Christian bloggers out there: Justin Taylor, Tony Reinke, Tim Challis
and Tullian Tchividjian.