Tag: Arts & Media

“Being Buddha at Work” is a promising book, but it loses its balance early and never recovers. That’s a shame because the question which it authors, Franz Metcalf and B.J. Gallagher, set out to answer is an important one: what does it look like when our deepest values are thoroughly integrated into our work?

On the surface it would seem that technology is helping our faith. We are able to connect through email more easily and often than with traditional snail mail. It is a greener form of communication and certainly less expensive.

Technology has most certainly helped my faith. It has opened communication to a new level.

Christians were among one of the first to utilize the new technology of codex to get their message out. Christians have since been a faith that used the the latest technology to get the Gospel out.

Technology is greatly helping my faith, and here are just a few of the ways, big and small, in no particular order, that we love technology:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon/LDS) is big time into genealogy/family history, and you can imagine how computers and the internet have helped that work.

In our church community group last week we called our friends on mission in Sudan, Africa from the living room of the home where we were meeting. We talked to our missionaries as a small group, while the mother of one of the missionaries held her smart phone up so all could hear.

Everyday my 3-year old son and I partake of this ritual. As we sit at our cozy kitchen table and eat lunch together, he’ll say, “Mama, do you want to play ‘Santa Claus is comin’ to town’?”