How does technology make you feel?

Excited? Confused? Anxious?

We see the power of technology throughout all of life, for good and evil, yet always under the redeeming rule of God through Christ Jesus.

Our mission is to help guide people through the challenges and opportunities of life in our disruptive technological world, by applying the beliefs and wisdom of the Christian faith, towards redemption in Christ, for the glory of God.

The 4 Steps to Redeeming Technology

1. Clarify the Biblical Foundations

We need to begin by uncovering core Biblical teaching as it relates to technology, including the sovereignty and purposes of our creator God, and our role as sub-creators under him, as well as the essence and purpose of technology in this world.

3. Triage with Tested Wisdom

The pace of emerging technology, and the amount disruption caused to our work, families, economy, health, churches and discipleship is snowballing. We need sharp, fast and well-refined tests for triaging technology to reject, receive and redeem.

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2. Appreciate the Monumental Challenge

Next, we can only reckon with the challenges posed by technology once we understand and embrace our responsibilities, and begin to grapple with how it works, how it shapes us, and how it can be used well towards honourable ends.

4. Implement with Confident Faith

Finally, what good is it to listen and understand if we do not act? To avoid technology’s hazards and experience its blessings, we need to act decisively in specific ways within the context of church, work, family, community and personal life.

Meet Tom Bell

I’m a researcher, writer and follower of Jesus, with a passion to guide people through the challenges of life in this disruptive technological age, with wisdom and faithfulness.

For much of my life, I was unthinkingly bullish on tech: “It’s fantastic! How impressive! Why not!?”. As my expertise working in technology research, engineering and consulting grew, I developed a much more cautious approach - even bordering on wholesale cynicism.

It wasn’t until I understood the God’s relationship with technology, and its place in His created order, that I developed the discernment to be both appropriately sceptical, but also confidently ambitious. I want to flee from the temptation, destruction and decay which technology so often brings about. But I also want to be the first to benefit from its blessings, wherever it can help me fulfil my God-given responsibilities in life more effectively and joyfully.

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.