What is “the machine,” and how is technology reshaping our culture, identity, and faith? In this RENEW Review, Chad Ragsdale examines Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine and its warning that modern culture has traded human roots for efficiency, control, and technological power. Kingsnorth argues that healthy societies once shared a past, a people, a place, and a prayer. Today, he says, those roots have been replaced by science, the self, sex, and the screen. The review explores his idea of the “great unsettling,” his comparison of modern technology to a system that reshapes humanity, and his provocative claim that artificial intelligence may be demonic. It also offers an important Christian counterpoint: technology can become an idol, but human creativity and innovation remain God-given gifts. Instead of embracing naïve optimism or anxious paranoia, Christians need wisdom and discernment.
Disciple Making, the Core Mission of the Church: Inspiring Purpose Disciple making, the core mission of the Church, brings people to Jesus and helps them become fully mature in Christ. […]
