Kingdom Journalism

Flickering Pixels

• Posted by Steve K. on February 10th, 2009 filed in Internet, Mission(s), Video, Writing
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I’m very excited about Shane Hipps’ new book Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith. Here’s an excerpt from the book that is particularly relevant to kingdom journalists (and all followers of Jesus, really):

“Christianity is fundamentally a communication event. The religion is predicated on God revealing himself to humanity. God has a habit of letting his people know something about his thoughts, feelings, and intentions. God wants to communicate with us, and his media are many: angels, burning bushes, stone tablets, scrolls, donkeys, prophets, mighty voices, still whispers, and shapes traced in the dirt. Any serious study of God is a study of communication, and any effort to understand God is shaped by our understanding — or misunderstanding — of the media and technology we use to communicate.”

Much of this book seems to be adapted from Hipps’ earlier book The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture, which I’ve promised I would blog on—and now this gives me renewed incentive to do that!