James and Shawn are two friends who like to talk about life. Science, grammar, parenting, spirituality--they're likely to discuss it.
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Shawn and James look over the Bible translations survey they sent out over a year ago. They look at what translations people use personally, what people’s “official” church translation is, and how open churches are to changing to a translation other than the KJV.
The findings are interesting, though not completely surprising. People's personal beliefs and use of different Bible translations differ quite a bit from how they perceive others' beliefs or their church's willingness to switch from the KJV.
YouTube – What Are Mennonites Like Today? (https://youtu.be/Dy_Uyc3_b0s?si=TA6JMGXdkRc39HjN)
YouTube – Useful Charts: History of Anabaptists & Quakers (https://youtu.be/7yDgCZ_ZR8M?si=gxYk5Dcdn_Iwz5Gq)
Website for contact information for Traditional Text Bible (https://traditionaltextbiblepublishers.org/) (not an official website)
Anabaptist World article (https://anabaptistworld.org/text-updated-yet-traditional/) about the Traditional Text Bible
Link to analysis of survey (https://1drv.ms/b/c/42995b9778f13030/EeNdnp7V4BlJoxV-d6Fs3jkBPS0daxRkzGSf98TwYRDidw?e=dG81jC)
9 May 2025
62: Building a Family Technology Plan
James and Shawn dive deep into some of the questions that many families are confronting today: What should I allow my children to look at? When should I give them a smartphone? How can I protect them from ungodly online content? Should I let my child use social media?
Parents are now dealing with a lot of pressures from the internet, social media, and smartphones that didn’t really exist a decade or so ago. How can we act wisely in an age that distracts us and tempts to fall prey to mindless consumption?
Science Corner
Lucy spacecraft images asteroid (https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-images-asteroid-donaldjohanson/)
Lagrange points (https://science.nasa.gov/resource/what-is-a-lagrange-point/)
Asteroid facts from NASA (https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/facts/)
Jupiter Trojan asteroids (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Jupiter_trojan)
Wikipedia - Tunguska Event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event)
Wikipedia - Chelyabinsk Meteor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor)
Family Technology Plan
The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch (https://a.co/d/5SxOQTI)
James’s articles
Digital Discipleship (https://1drv.ms/b/c/42995b9778f13030/EdSMjCh_ZYVBvmragO8JHF8BGgDn0nD_88hqt8yjW7jXbw?e=grgzSU)
Technology’s Road of Death (https://1drv.ms/b/c/42995b9778f13030/EUZFsM_U2eFIngBvWBpCPXgBbsmaxjHdvrQ5Xsh4DSgNdw?e=yyAyVn)
Jonathan Haidt (https://jonathanhaidt.com/)
The Anxious Generation (https://a.co/d/agjGxJT)
Book Recommendation
Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer (https://a.co/d/4ft38Xo)
Contact Information
Email: lookingoverlife@gmail.com (mailto:lookingoverlife@gmail.com)
Website: lookingoverlife.com (https://lookingoverlife.com/)
Patreon: patreon.com/lookingoverlife (https://www.patreon.com/lookingoverlife)
James's blog: Invisible Things (https://invisiblethings.blog/)
25 Oct 2024
61: Should Christians Be Conservatives or Liberals?
After Shawn accuses James of being a flaming liberal, they discuss the meaning and origin of the terms "conservative" or "liberal" and how they should or shouldn't apply to the Christian. Do some people naturally orient one way or another based on their personality or stage in life? How are conservative and liberals in the church to work together? Was Jesus a conservative or a liberal? And what does that mean for how Christians today should orient ourselves to the political and religious movements that categorize themselves as one or the other?
Links
Is the Christian believer conservative or liberal? (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23753234.2019.1616580)
Understanding Conservative Christianity: What is Means and How it Shapes Beliefs (https://christianeducatorsacademy.com/understanding-conservative-christianity-what-it-means-and-how-it-shapes-beliefs/)
Liberal vs Conservatives: Meaning and Differences (https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/liberals-vs-conservatives)
What Do Christians Mean When They Use the Word “Conservative”? (https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2019/what-do-christians-mean-when-they-use-the-word-conservative)
Conservative or Christian? (https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/conservative-or-christian)
Encyclopedia Britannica: Conservatism (https://www.britannica.com/topic/conservatism)
What in the World is Fundamentalism? — Anabaptist Perspectives (https://anabaptistperspectives.org/episodes/what-in-the-world-is-fundamentalism-ask-anabaptist-perspectives-anything-episode-36/)
The root of the word radical (https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=radical)
Scientists Imaged and Mapped a Tiny Piece of Human Brain. Here’s What They Found (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-imaged-and-mapped-a-tiny-piece-of-human-brain-heres-what-they-found-180984340/)
What We're Reading
Gospel Versus Gospel—Theron Schlabach (https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/gospel-versus-gospel-mission-and-the-mennonite-church-1863-1944-studies-in-anabaptist-and-mennonite-history_theron-f-schlabach/988624/item/33257633/?pkw=&pmt=be&slid=&product=33257633&plc=&pgrid=1231453276361702&ptaid=pla-4580565453036805#idiq=33257633&edition=7543379)
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness—Jonathan Haidt (https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/)
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/)
After Babel—Substack (https://www.afterbabel.com/)
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