1st Law of Internet Communications By BylineJohn Dyer on October 8, 2010March 5, 2020 A few days ago I was doing some research on creating and parsing CSV files, and I came across something called the “1st Law of Internet Communications” which was coinedContinue reading1st Law of Internet Communications
Thomas Edison Died Last Week, But Light Lives On By BylineJohn Dyer on September 30, 2010March 5, 2020 With the flip of a switch last week, the last factory in the United States making old style incandescent bulbs – the kind Thomas Edison spent much of the 1870sContinue readingThomas Edison Died Last Week, But Light Lives On
Responding to Constant Images of Mass Suffering: Haiti, Technology, and Repentance By BylineJohn Dyer on February 17, 2010March 5, 2020 Haiti and Suffering Since the horrible earthquake in Haiti, it has been encouraging to see the incredible outpouring of support and mobilization using all available resources and technology. The devastationContinue readingResponding to Constant Images of Mass Suffering: Haiti, Technology, and Repentance
Have You Ever Wished You Had an “I Give Online” Token? By BylineJohn Dyer on January 11, 2010March 5, 2020 Last November, Christianity Today asked me to write a short piece that answered the question, “Which new technologies hold the most promise—and the most peril—for use in church ministries?” InsteadContinue readingHave You Ever Wished You Had an “I Give Online” Token?
God Does Not Post to YouTube? Dr. Read Schuchardt on the Morality of Media By BylineJohn Dyer on January 4, 2010March 5, 2020 A reader named Adam posted a few videos from Wheaton College of Professor Read Schuchardt’s chapel presentation in which he addresses several issues with our media and electronically saturated culture (seeContinue readingGod Does Not Post to YouTube? Dr. Read Schuchardt on the Morality of Media
Shane Hipps is Coming to My Conference: The Electronic Gospel By BylineJohn Dyer on December 7, 2009March 5, 2020 Just kidding. It’s the other way around. Dallas Theological Seminary‘s Center for Christian Leadership is hosting Shane Hipps, author of Flickering Pixels (my review), for a one day conference inContinue readingShane Hipps is Coming to My Conference: The Electronic Gospel
Pornography Is Not Just About Lust:The Emotional Power of Images By BylineJohn Dyer on September 17, 2009March 5, 2020 Why? I will skip the statistics about how many pastors struggle with pornography, how early boys are exposed to their first pornographic image, and how destructive it has become toContinue readingPornography Is Not Just About Lust:The Emotional Power of Images
Dostoevsky’s 1984 Saved Him from Our Brave New World By BylineJohn Dyer on June 2, 2009March 5, 2020 1984 vs. Brave New World In the introduction to Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman contrasts the worries about future technology by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (1932) and George OrwellContinue readingDostoevsky’s 1984 Saved Him from Our Brave New World
Being Conformed into the Avatar of Christ: Social Networks & Identify Formation By BylineJohn Dyer on April 17, 2009March 5, 2020 The following was written as a guest post for my friend Robert Johnson who runs the wonderful site www.practicingtheology.com My Big Confession On my facebook profile, my favorite TV showsContinue readingBeing Conformed into the Avatar of Christ: Social Networks & Identify Formation
Online Questions for Offline Churches: Is Communion Just A Cracker? By BylineJohn Dyer on February 23, 2009March 5, 2020 Whenever new church models, technologies, and techniques come along there are some who embrace them and some who question them. For me, it has been interesting to see how someContinue readingOnline Questions for Offline Churches: Is Communion Just A Cracker?