After Virtual: The Church

After Virtual: The Church

Author: frontporchrepublic November 14, 2022 Duration: 51:10
For the first of our episodes from September’s FPR conference After Virtual:  The Art of Recovering Lost Goods, we go to church.  Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman share thoughts on technology and embodied worship in a time of pandemic.   Speakers:  Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman  Highlights  1:15 Carl Trueman  3:00 Is it all Protestantism’s fault?  4:00 How to take over an empire  6:15 Reformations and technology  11:00 Overlooked revolutionary sausages   13:45 Our age of social acceleration   16:45 A challenge to holy time  19:00 A challenge to community  20:00 Gregory Hogg  20:15 Christians and plagues  23:00 Masks and noble lies  26:00 Vaccines and Canadians  28:00 Virtual worship?  30:00 Body and Church  31:30 Charlie Cotherman  32:00 Elisha’s physical engagement  35:00 Resurrection, proximity, and presence  39:00 Community and COVID tech  42:30 To the statistics  46:00 Invasive species and unholy shortcuts      Resources  Speaker bios  Conference videos  Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023)  Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

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