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Wow, we've got a new set of episodes coming our way—and Adam & Chris have decided to unveil a twist—while possible moving even closer to the Platonic ideal of Device & Virtue.Support our new season at https://www.deviceandvirtue.com/patreonLe
If not, what about our soundboards and electric guitars? If you thought the answer would be straightforward, you don't know us! Adam and Chris deep into the intertwining histories of church music and technology. From early debates over instrume
NEW THIS SEASON! Leave us a 90-second voice message about this episode. We may feature it in a future segment!Pulpit AI could save your church hours of social media work every week. Could it kill the sermon in the process?We interview pastor
Ownership is not an option.Forget magazines—does it seem like today we subscribe to just about everything? You’re not wrong—from reading books to driving cars—80% of new businesses offer a subscription. Has software changed ownership forever?
Ownership is not an option.Forget magazines—does it seem like today we subscribe to just about everything? You’re not wrong—from reading books to driving cars—80% of new businesses offer a subscription. Has software changed ownership forever?
NEW THIS SEASON! Leave us a 90-second voice message about this episode. We may feature it in a future segment!When’s the last time you got a handwritten letter, or stared out the window, or went on vacation without checking email? Did the Inte
THREADS is the all new social network launched by the founders of Facebook, and it launched big and fast—over 100 millions accounts in the first week. Chris reflects on how social networks work like societal mirrors, and reflect some of the sam
NEW Leave us a 90-second voice message about this episode.--This month, Apple announced the new Vision Pro headset. 10 years from now, will we look back and say it changed our life? Can we ever know whether something is a Flop or the Future?
NEW THIS SEASON! Leave us a 90-second voice message about this episode. We may feature it in a future segment!“Minority Report” was just a movie, right? Well, not anymore. Beat cops from Los Angeles to London are using Artificial Intelligence
Welcome to Device & Virtue, Season 9! Leave Us a Digital Voicemail!Starting this season, *in these show notes* and at deviceandvirtue.com, you can leave us a digital voicemail. We’ve been arguing the wrongs and rights of technology and fait
Christians used to be known as "people of the book." Do we lose something big if we become the "people of the screen"? From Moses to Gutenberg to YouVersion App, we’re talking the digital bible with our guest John Dyer.Chris talks with John ab
“Hey Chat GPT, write a script for a podcast arguing the wrongs and rights of technology and faith…”Could AI write that? The shocking answer is… it’s close. Maybe a full yes. The revolution of Artificial Intelligence chatbots got a rocket boost
Device & Virtue friend & author John Dyer jumps on the podcast talking about the 10 11 year updated edition of his book From the Garden to the City. Wow, a lot changes in a decade! Ten years ago, nobody knew what Zoom was, and online church mea
Who hasn’t heard about Twitter these days? With all the controversy, Adam & Chris are talking about how private tech becomes a “public square”—and does Twitter have a future in 2023?Big QuestionsWhat is “free speech”?What is the idea of th
Stained glass, digital photos, or a pile of rocks. Today, we join the co-hosts of the Embedded Church podcast and talk about how the church builds memories. It’s a podcast inside a podcast.Memories help people establish identities and build co
Author Andy Crouch says that we’re doing it all wrong—smartphones aren’t giving us the life we’re looking for. We asked him how to fix it, plus whether he’d ever own a robot dog.Andy is our first returning guest to Device & Virtue! This time,
Can you strap on VR goggles and go to church in the metaverse? We asked the author Jay Kim of Analog Church and the pastor DJ Soto of Virtual Reality Church to argue all the wrongs and rights.Finally, an episode where Adam & Chris aren’t the o
Vincent van Gogh spent decades perfecting his impressionist style. You can master it in one minute with the new AI art generator called DALL-E. Do we even need artists any more?DALL-E 2 is an artificial intelligence image generator released to
Gas prices went crazy this year. Are electric cars actually better?This is the one where Adam tries to decide whether to buy an electric car. In the age of Tesla, is it the right choice? Where did the choice even come from?Adam and Chris take
Is a computer actually like the human brain? And is God’s wisdom as mysterious as an AI’s black box? We host Wired columnist Meghan O’Gieblyn with fascinating conversation through sentience, suffering, God’s sovereignty—and of course, AI roboti
You know that Thing where they ask celebrities to answer popular questions from Google autocomplete? Yeah... that’s what we’re doing today.Every day, people google their questions about technology. In this episode, Chris & Adam set the record
When Wired magazine started, they did the weirdest thing a tech magazine could do—they picked a patron saint. Was Marshall McLuhan a digital prophet?Chris interviews Nick Ripatrazone, author of Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Spiritual V
Do you use Slack at work? Is your email inbox overflowing? Has any of this tech made our work better?Workplace tech has grown a lot… from memorandums to fax machines to email to Slack! So are we all more efficient? Or more overwhelmed?Workers
The war in Ukraine has tanks in the streets, but don’t miss the invisible weapons—hackers from both sides are launching online attacks. Chris & Adam ask a really subtly perplexing question: is digital war violence?BIG TOPICS INCLUDEThis episo
Author Tony Reinke thinks Christians have made a wrong turn with technology, and he is out to steer us right. We’re coming along for the ride.We interview Tony Reinke, author of the new book God, Technology, and the Christian Life, exploring h
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