PJ Wehry

Fear is a great motivator, but it will burn you out from the inside.

If we wish to follow in Christ’s footsteps, then we cannot avoid suffering. Many Christians don’t have the answers to deal with suffering. They apply truisms to broken people like bandaids to gaping wounds. They silence grief because they don’t want to hear it– both their own grief and the grief of others. But there is someone who hears.

In America, the mainstream culture views work largely in terms of money, benefits, and status. It defines work as a job instead of a vocation, making our work a commodity that is easily replaceable and meaningless. Instead, vocation roots work in mission, calling, and purpose. Vocation allows us to find our true identity in the lifelong pursuit of our calling.

Faith is trust in something that you don’t have immediate evidence for. It’s a virtue of traces, of the smell of rain before the clouds even appear. It is the working feet of the Christian journey, the inside-out rally cap of the bottom of the ninth of life, the down-to-earth grit, not the five minute grit everyone is selling in self-help books, but the real one that looks out from your best friend’s eyes in that moment when you have to choose and you choose together. We have relegated faith to the outskirts of our conversation because we are blind to the many different ways, times, and places that its strength bursts forth.

The modern world is rapidly evolving. We are constantly confronted by new, world-changing technologies from the internet to heart transplants. These technologies bring with them a host of questions that Christians need to wisely and prayerfully consider. This post is just an exploratory article to help create a springboard for a larger, more in-depth discussion. It helps define what technology is, provides a cursory glance at two topics, and gives a small list of further topics to investigate.

Have you ever been enjoying a conversation, and someone brings up a hot new show that you did not know existed? Of course, everyone else knows about it. Characters and terms you have not even heard of start flying around the room, and you have no hope of catching them. All you can do is duck and get of out of the way of the hype plane.

 In the book Anansi Boys, Anansi, the African god of storytelling, is sitting on his front porch in Florida (he’s retired) when he notices a prize-winning dog strutting back and forth on the lawn across the street. It’s a boxer with all the proud defining characteristics of its breed.