smartphones
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ContestsScreen-fast 2026: How’d we all do?
Last year’s screen-fast set the bar pretty high with over 900 people signing up to participate. This year, nearly 800 of you decided to once…
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Adult non-fictionThe Amazing Generation: Your guide to fun and freedom in a screen-filled world
by Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price 2025 / 236 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT The old blue rocking chair is the most comfortable chair in our house,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 11, 2026
Expose what they don’t know When it comes to any sort of discussion or debate, we don’t always have to do the heavy lifting. Especially…
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Recent ArticlesWhat I like about my dumbphone
I’ve been using the Light Phone III exclusively for almost a year now and wanted to share a few notes for anyone who might be…
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Recent ArticlesOn being smartphone-free for five years
Way back in the Fall of 2021, I ditched my iPhone and got a dumbphone. I was sick of how my smartphone was a major…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Sept 27, 2025
Voddie Baucham (1969-2025) spoke to Christian Nationalism shortly before his passing This past week, Voddie Baucham passed away at the age of 56. A Reformed…
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Recent ArticlesWhat does fleeing sin look like?
Despite endless attempts to do so, fleeing sin can’t be done halfheartedly – that only sets the stage for failure. A tepid turning away is…
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InternetScreen-fast strictness – how tough is tough enough?
The screen-fast sign-up form had a space for “My listed exceptions” where people could list the important but limited screen-usage that their life and job…
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InternetScreen-fast 2025: Less screens = more life
We were hoping for 200 to sign up. Turns out a lot of us were ready for this – more than 900 registered for RP’s…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 16, 2025
Life’s building blocks: everything, everywhere, all at once (1 minute) You can build some of the basic elements of a cell in a lab. But…
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InternetWe took the “No Screens Challenge”
Do you remember the last time you were without your phone for a day? Maybe you left it at your friend’s house, and couldn’t retrieve…
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InternetHow to stay sane in an overstimulated age
In today’s hyperconnected world, information comes at us fast and furious, from every direction, 24-7. We wake up to news alerts about a major earthquake…
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Adult non-fiction13 quick thoughts on “Screen-Smart Parenting”
Parenting is _________. You fill in the blank. It is so many things. It is an adventure with no shortage of ups and downs. I…
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InternetOn becoming tech-savvy Christians
Technology changes so quickly that we can become bewildered over what to think about all the new products, services and platforms that appear and disappear….
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 6, 2024
How social media keeps you poor (10 min) Though the two commentators here aren’t Christian, the warning they offer may help us better resist social…
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NewsNew Brunswick still isn’t banning smartphones in school
According to Paige MacPherson and Alex Whalen of the Fraser Institute, cellphones’ negative impact on students has been especially apparent in New Brunswick. The Maritime…
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NewsBC says goodbye to phones in school
Last month, the Premier of British Columbia, David Eby, announced that schools must implement restrictions on cellphones. It would be up to local districts to…
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NewsIn the age of the smartphone, kids aren’t performing as well
Research released in December seems to indicate a general decline in student performance around the world over the last decade and a half. These findings…
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Internet…the Internet can pervert anything
**** Warning: the following addresses pornography and sexual content Born in 1998, I grew up in the generation when the iPod Touch and cellphones were…
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InternetIs our curiosity controlling us, or are we controlling it?
Curiosity can be downright lethal… and not only to cats. In our Internet age, curiosity can quickly take us where we must not go. But…
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InternetThe smartphone stack
You’re out with some friends having a nice dinner. But one has been talking on his phone for the last ten minutes, and a second…
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Adult non-fictionThe Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
by Andy Crouch 2017/ 220 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Did you just binge multiple seasons of that show everyone is talking about over the weekend? Do…
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Adult non-fictionReflections on “12 ways your phone is changing you”
The phone has had a huge impact on our way of life. This was true already, back in the 1920s, when the coming of the…
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ParentingFading to black: alternatives to screen-time
An upcoming issue of the magazine will feature 200+ movie recommendations, and were anyone to watch even a fraction of these films, that’d be an…
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Book excerpts10 QUOTES: On technology and the family
We need to control our technology; it can’t control us “…it is absolutely completely possible to make different choices about technology from the default settings…
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InternetTechnology and our anxious hearts
As a pastor I get to talk to lots of people. After some conversation, I start to get a sense of where people stand. How…
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ParentingA smartphone contract for our kids
The ““Lights at Stewart’s Place” Facebook page is normally about the Stewart family’s incredible Christmas light display. This past December they turned their whole house…
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NewsWho do you want to know better?
In a holiday ad (for Spanish speakers) the furniture giant IKEA gathered several families, seating each clan around a large table where a holiday feast…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Dec. 29, 2018
Mutations show devolution, not evolution (3 min) Beneficial mutations do happen, but they happen via a loss of information. And such information-losing mutations offer no explanation for…
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Saturday Selections – Nov. 17, 2018
Canadian doctors get ready for child euthanasia Doctors and bioethicists associated with the children’s hospital in Toronto are pushing to be “allowed to euthanize ‘capable minors’… without…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Oct 21, 2017
Welcoming vs. affirming In the LGBTQ debate there is a demand that for a church to be welcoming, it must also affirm people’s lifestyle. Trevin…
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NewsPorn and the smartphone: parents should be freaking out
In a May 2 piece in the American Conservative, journalist Rod Dreher said that when he goes to speak at Christian colleges, the professors, staffers…