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In an article entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr wrote: Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case any …
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If we are to hold onto our identity and calling as pastors in North America, then we must resist the consumer-driven impulses that have infested our culture and even the church. We must become, as Eugene Peterson suggest, more than religious shopkeepers who keep the budget growing, the building improving, and the congregation busy. We …
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Recent studies show that we are more distracted than ever before. A documentary entitled Digital Nation, featured a study of multitasking MIT students who attempted to complete more work by simultaneously doing five or six tasks. The students assumed they were more efficient by doing this, yet the study revealed that they were actually slower …
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Matthew Erickson 