How does technology make you feel?
Lost? Confused? Anxious?
We equip individuals, families and churches with the resources and training they need to life wise, faithful and discerning lives, for God’s glory, in our digital age.
What we’re all about
We’re on a mission to equip Christians, families and the Church with the Biblical understanding, wisdom and advice necessary to faithfully and confidently engage with technology in this disruptive digital generation.
Technology is part of God’s creation and has brought extraordinary blessings to human life. But it’s harms and evils are pernicious and are often hidden beneath the surface of our day-to-day experiences. It teaches us lies about ourselves, about God and about one another, and creates trajectories for our lives which often conflict with godly spiritual, familial or vocational disciplines.
In order to grab the bull by its horns, we need to see the ways in which technology can serve the mission of the church, and be of service in Christian life. But we also need to have appropriate guardrails to hold as we venture into the unknown.
In an age in which every few months reveals new transformative expressions of technology, it’s becoming of ever more vital spiritual significance to get serious about our understanding of technology, so that we know how to respond.
That’s what we’re here to figure out with you.
Who are you really?
Hi there, I’m Tom Bell - a researcher, writer and follower of Jesus, with a passion to equip people to live as faithful and effective stewards in this age of technological disruption and uncertainty.
I’ve worked in emerging technology, within academia, industry and ministry contexts for many years. These have typically been roles in computer science, futurology, and security engineering, addressing some of the most pressing technical challenges we face today.
Instinctively I enjoy surrounding myself with technology. Not only do I find it fascinating, but I’ve always had that intuitive sense that technology can be a profound force for good, and for the honour of our creator God. Yet today, so much of what we now associate with technology is to our great detriment: predatory social media companies, ruinous pornographic material, misleading information or reporting, addictive gaming and a lack of privacy and security online.
Indeed technology itself seems to be immersing us in a story that is fundamentally at odds with the gospel - one which elevates the lies of: the subjectivity of truth, expressive individualism, philosophical naturalism, self-sufficiency and self-ownership.
This story is a direct assault to the Bible’s teaching of our God-given status as image-bearers, who have the responsibilities of Christian stewardship, and for whom salvation from sin through Jesus and the future restoration are our only hope of enjoying real life as God intended.
So the question has to be asked: How can Christians live faithfully, wisely and confidently in such a disruptive online environment?
Redeeming Technology is the vehicle for answering that question, and helping the Church to live it out.
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