After Babel: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World with Andy Crouch & Jonathan Haidt

[@UTEXTRACK]

Enlightening.

[@CottonHogs]

This conversation is the first significantly hopeful encouragement to my heart, mind, & soul that affects my waning strength.

[@sarahmast9849]

It's hard to choose a favorite Trinity Forum talk, but this might be it. I love listening and reading both Jonathan Haidt and Andy Crouch on their own---they were so encouraging and thoughtful together!

[@debbyhuntermills7958]

Rather than attribute increased mental health issues in young people to too much protection, what if the issue has been increased exposure to stress and violence. The Oklahoma City bombing happened when my oldest son was weeks old in 1995. Such horrific instances have become increasingly common.

[@michaelparsons3007]

Jonathan Haidt is the foremost expert on how social media specifically has affected young people and girls specifically more so. It’s not that what you’re saying isn’t relevant. If you go to Haidt’s website he has a couple of articles that are an update on his earlier book on the topic called The Coddling of the American Mind. I can’t explain all of his findings in detail but the data is clear. God bless.

[@gentleoldmoviefan5680]

Preliminary remarks end (and actual content begins) at 2:02 in this video

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A great discussion. Great advice and suggestions. Thank-you.

[@Petergoforth]

About play, the "play date" alone is its own abomination of desolation. What has happened to spontaneous play among children? Similarly, it used to be a punishment to be called indoors. Now, it seems children often resent being told to go outdoors. Sigh . . .

[@lesliecunliffe4450]

This is a wonderful discussion. Thank you to The Trinity Forum for organizing this event; however, the discussion fails to explicitly understand the problem of technology from Heidegger's analysis of modernity as 'the technological understanding of being in which everything is understood as a resource that has to be flexibly and efficiently used up'. In our own time, this notion of being has become even more dystopian given that it not only includes humanity as THE resource but also weaponizes technology to eliminate any voice thought to question the technological understanding of being. To eclipse the technological understanding of being, Heidegger stressed the importance of releasement from technology, which can only happen by reviving and rediscovering marginal practices. Christianity is a paradigm case of what is now such a marginal practice.