Trump Slop and Harris Brain Rot
Trump and Harris have embraced AI and brainrot content. But that doesn't mean you should.| www.endeavorwithus.com
Some churches are repulsed by the idea of marketing. Other churches aren’t repulsed enough. Both of them arise out of a misunderstanding about what marketing is.| Endeavor Blog
Watching the home stretch of the election online was a fascinating case study, on two different ideas of what the internet is and how to use it, playing out in real time. Obviously, the result ended in Trump winning not just the electoral college but the popular vote as well.| Endeavor Blog
Several weeks ago, I spoke at a local Christian school’s elementary and middle school chapel. Rather than preaching, I wrote a short fable that illustrated the destructive power of social media and smart devices. Much to my surprise, children connected deeply with the story. Some even went back to their parents to ask for help reducing their device usage! So I wanted to share it with our community. You can read it to your children and use the questions at the end to start a dialogue about w...| Endeavor Blog
It might be time to consider doing a Digital Daniel Diet.| Endeavor Blog
Earlier this month, the following essay was given as a keynote address at Theology in the Raw’s Exiles in Babylon Conference. If you’re interested in hearing the entirety of my comments, and the subsequent dialogue between myself, Preston Sprinkle, and Jay Kim, please visit the conference website.| Endeavor Blog
I wrote a guest piece of Samuel James on his Substack, Digital Liturgies. It explores the dynamic of grief, anger, and exvangelicals. You can start reading here and finish over on his Substack. Subscribe while you're over there. Samuel is an insightful writer.| Endeavor Blog
NOTE: This article was originally published on The Gospel Coalition. After the first day of middle school, John’s son, Jordan, arrived home with a new toy: a school-issued iPad. Of course, it wasn’t given as a toy. It was given as an educational tool, but to your average 12-year-old who’s never owned a smartphone or an Apple product—well, it’s cool. Curious about what Jordan could access on the device, John took the iPad to his room. He knew the district promised to filter explicit...| Endeavor Blog
Try to define the word “religion”.| Endeavor Blog
I recently finished Brenna Blain’s Can I Say That?, a remarkable exploration of same-sex attraction, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, suicidal ideation, and all the painfully raw questions “good Christians” never ask out loud but almost always feel in the quiet depths of their heart. After finishing it, I told Brenna that it brought me to tears more times than I wish to admit. It’s a lovely book because, in it, Brenna gives readers the gift of herself as she really is. Not a pol...| Endeavor Blog
Trump and Harris have embraced AI and brainrot content. But that doesn't mean you should.| www.endeavorwithus.com
If you’re a Christian leader, content creator, or media operator who believes that God’s called you to be faithful in your cultural moment by working for the flourishing of what is good on the internet by subversively using digital tools for kingdom ends, then you’re in the right place.| www.endeavorwithus.com
Social media is only going to make this election season worse for you. It might be best to ignore it.| www.endeavorwithus.com
Is the goal of digital ministry to go viral? Or is there a better goal to aim for?| www.endeavorwithus.com
No one wants to read your newsletter. But there's a way to write it that will make it a can't miss.| www.endeavorwithus.com
America used to be a bookish country. Now, readers are a rare breed. What do we lose when we don't read?| www.endeavorwithus.com
Somewhere along the line, it seems as though we stopped asking, “What are schools good for?” and instead asked, “What is technology good for?”| www.endeavorwithus.com
Substack is a fast-growing platform for writers. Should you start your own? Here are 3 pros and 3 cons.| www.endeavorwithus.com
Commercials might be dead, but what came after them might be even more powerful. How will that change us?| www.endeavorwithus.com
If you're spending all of your time wondering about your livestream, you're probably spinning your wheels.| www.endeavorwithus.com
Feelings don't care about your facts. An in a digital age of context collapse, that's the name of the game.| www.endeavorwithus.com
Where there's a will, there's a way. Teenagers will always find a way. So what can do you to protect them from the damaging effects of smartphones?| www.endeavorwithus.com
What is the internet doing to our brains? It's changing us in more ways than we know.| www.endeavorwithus.com
Neil Postman's book, Amusing Ourselves To Death, is most likely the most prophetic book of the 20th century. Read it with us as we discover how media forms (and deforms) us and how we can apply his wisdom in the digital age.| www.endeavorwithus.com
In the era of addictive, algorithmically sorted, short-form visual media, are podcasts a return to the past? Could podcasts in the church make us all a bit less stupid? Maybe.| www.endeavorwithus.com
