Halfway There13 Dec 2021

273: Felicia Song and Digital Discipleship

Felicia Song is a professor of sociology who studies social and cultural impact of digital technologies. Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence and Place in the Digital Age. Today, Felicia share her experience growing up in a fundamentalist, Chinese church, discovering the Holy Spirit in college, and what she’s learned about God by studying sociology. We also talk about her book and how Christians can be wise as we live with technology. Felicia’s story reminds us to be wise about how we think and practice technology as Christians.

Listen to Felicia’s story now!

Stories Felicia shared:

Teaching sociology at Westmont
Growing up in a Christian family in New Jersey
The vibrant Chinese church she attended
Never not believing in God
Joining InterVarsity and interacting with non-Asian Christians for the first time
Attending a Vineyard church for the first time
Discovering that she came from a fundamentalist tradition
Going to L’Abri Fellowship
Noticing her students getting email for the first time
What she’s learned about God from studying sociology
How liturgy formed her experience
Why she wrote Restless Devices
Her encouragement for the way forward with technology

Great quotes from Felicia:

It’s not so much the content that shapes us; it’s really the form or the practices.

As human beings, we are meaning makers.

We live in a meaning-filled world because we serve a meaning-filled God.

We do not need to live under the tyranny of our technologies.

We serve a good Lord, but technologies are often brutal and merciless lords.

Resources we mentioned:

Felicia’s website
Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age by Felicia Song
Fundamentalism and American Culture (New Edition) by George Marsden
Truce Podcast
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker

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