Technology
Posted on January 29, 2026
by Mollie Clark
Social media is part of everyday life. It helps us stay connected, informed, and engaged with the world around us. Used well, it can even be a tool for encouragement, learning, and community. Like many powerful tools and technology, social media can quietly shape us. Read for five signs that social media may be influencing your life more than you realize.
Godly Living
Posted on November 18, 2025
by Rev. Jonathan & Rebecca Conner
In Part 3 of our series on Artificial Intelligence, we now turn to AI and character bots in relation to career and life coaching and relationships. This involves a deeper study of what it means to be human, an image-bearing creation of God, and what it means to flourish in support, relationship, and love of Him and one another.
Godly Living
Posted on October 14, 2025
by Rev. Jonathan & Rebecca Conner
Scripture teaches that true wisdom begins with knowing and embracing what God has called good and relentlessly aligning our lives with it. We must employ this framework of evaluating everything in terms of what God has called good in order to discern how to interact wisely with AI.
Godly Living
Posted on September 3, 2025
by Rev. Jonathan & Rebecca Conner
AI is listening and responding everywhere. Is that exciting or terrifying? Will AI help humans flourish or take over the world? Is it good or evil? How should Christians think about AI? In order to chart a thoughtful and wise path forward we will need to establish a robust conceptual framework in order to respond to the multifaceted realities of AI.
Mental Health
Posted on March 3, 2025
by Rev. Jonathan & Katy Crawford
Perhaps you’ve been asked, “Are you giving up anything for Lent?” There is a tradition in the church of individuals choosing something to abstain from during the 40-day season. This year rather than each of us choosing something individually, our congregation is joining together in giving up (or reducing our use of) screens.
Mental Health
Posted on October 17, 2024
by Rev. Jonathan Conner
If you want to avoid being swept down the cultural river toward the ocean of disordered minds, fractured relationships, and listless lives, these are the significant life changes you need to do. If you want richly meaningful lives defined by a mature spirituality, robust relationships, and profound wonder and gratitude, these are the changes you must make.
Mental Health
Posted on September 30, 2024
by Rev. Jonathan Conner
Since 2010, when smartphones became ubiquitous and social media usage began to explode, we have seen double and triple digit percentage increases in loneliness, anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide among young people. Imagine if we discovered that something in our water was causing similar increases in cancer. Would you remain indifferent?
Marriage & Relationships
Posted on February 9, 2023
by Toni Larson, LISW
Social media in and of itself can be very useful and is not the problem. It is how we use these tools that can be the problem.
Parenting
Posted on September 19, 2019
Parents can make a positive change in their family’s life, especially regarding the use of technology by reducing screen time.
Mental Health
Posted on June 6, 2019
As a young family, my husband and I have discussed several ways to avoid the scenario where technology takes over.
