Read the entire article originally published at JuicyEcumenism.com: The Institute for Religion and Democracy’s Blog. “Young Evangelicals Elise Daniel and Taylor Barkley discussed their belief that Christianity is politically compatible with libertarianism at a Faith and Law presentation at Capitol Hill on Friday, January 6. Daniel, currently working on Capitol Hill and a co-author with…
Former Christianity Today Editor Andy Crouch’s recently published book, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place was a pleasant surprise. I liked it better than I thought I would. It’s a short, pleasant combination of research by the Barna Group into evangelical family’s views on technology and Crouch’s perspectives and…
At what point are humans, fully assimilated with technology, no longer human? Do self-sustaining artificially intelligent (AI) beings have rights? For many, the singularity is not a question of “if”, but “when”? Therefore, the question of God is more real than ever. Yet, while 80 percent of the American population claims to believe in God,…
Originally posted at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission blog Apple CEO Tim Cook’s letter about the FBI brought forth both emotional outrage and joyful fist-pumping from the tech community. It also has brought a very public spotlight to a conflict between two great problems that plague the modern era: security against threats and the…
Originally written for the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics in 2013. The executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, recently visited North Korea with the former governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, to promote a free and open internet. In a country of 24 million people, only a handful of elites in North Korea have the kind…