Thoreau’s glorified camping trip at Walden pond has shaped the American imagination and perspective on writers. Of course, writers holed themselves away in order to write far from the madding crowd long before Thoreau. But Thoreau embodied the rigorous independence, the resistance to the unnecessary...

When it comes to corporate moral responsibility, the media is consistently double minded. Steve Jobs, one of the most inspired visionaries of our time, is more than just a businessman–and Apple is more than just a business.  From an early age Steve Jobs set out to run his own company and build...

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He now shares with us his vision for its future. Based on my work at GodblogCon and my conversations with Christians who are web thought leaders, I’d say Mr. Berners-Lee is correct. I would be quick to add, however, that despite the...

By Ken Myers Lately, a lot of what I’m reading has been concerned with how I’m reading, with whether other people are reading, and with how reading influences our inner lives, both our brains and our souls. Nicholas Carr’s Atlantic essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (July/August...

By John Mark Reynolds I have longed for it, wanted it from afar, and envied my friends who owned it. I can only thank God that the Bible forbids coveting my neighbor’s ox and not his iPhone or I would have been in big trouble. Fortunately the strength of this particular exegesis was not long put...