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iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives is unavailable, but you can change that!

Today the world is literally at our fingertips. We can call, text, email, or post our status to friends and family on the go. We can carry countless games, music, and apps in our pocket. Yet it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by access to so much information and exhausted from managing our online relationships and selves. Craig Detweiler, a nationally known writer and speaker on media issues,...

everything done. They arrive in class looking exhausted and bleary-eyed. They are often in the middle of a relational drama that is playing out in real time, either on Facebook or via instant messaging. It may be a fight with a roommate, the end of a romance, or a plea from a parent. The constant tug of electronic inputs keeps them from being focused. We are hyperconnected and easily distracted, always available and rarely present. When Jesus saw the crowds in ancient Israel, he had compassion on
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