How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom With advancements in internet technology, people can get instant answers to just about any of their questions, connect long distance with family and friends, and stay informed with events around the world in real time. In Digital Liturgies, tech-realist Samuel D. James examines the connection between patterns in technology and human desires. Everyone longs for a glimpse of heaven; James argues they are just looking for it in the wrong place—the internet. This accessible book exposes 5 "digital liturgies" that prohibit people from contemplating big truths, accepting the uncomfortable, and acknowledging God as their Creator. It then calls readers to live faithfully before Christ, finding wisdom through Scripture and rest in God's perfect design. A Biblical View of the Internet and Technology: Readers explore the connection between human desire, the internet, and wisdom through a Christian lens Great for College Students, Parents, and Pastors: This book encourages readers to live faithfully for Christ Offers a Tech-Realist Perspective: Samuel D. James highlights the inherent dangers of digital technologies, offering wisdom for navigating our internet-saturated world
Samuel James was raised in the Midwestern United States by a very dysfunctional evangelical family. He now resides in Pasadena, California, He obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in both sociology and political science plus two years of Masters study in Psychology. Self-taught plus some schooling gave him the Engineering skills to enable him to engineer major projects for both the US Government and State and local governments, By age 32, he had built a Federal and State construction business and a manufacturing business, where he engineered and designed all of the products, and his net worth was $20-million. He sold out to a Fortune 500 company. He also taught math and government in secondary schools and is a certified teacher, HIS KNOWLEDGE FOR THIS BOOK was not a result of the above. He travelled the world and witnessed many cultures and poverty, torture, human slavery...India, Central America, Viet Nam, Thailand, Mexico, China, Africa, 51 states of USA. His own family of “evangelical” origin put him in prison twice, once based on perjury by his brother and the second time by robbing him of his entire business. Altogether the author ha been in 17 jails and 11 prisons and asylums and his own father orchestrated the author’s siblings to these things and his father participated. The author escaped from a Federal Penitentiary and created an identity that got him to China where he engineered and designed electric vehicles, did import/export and was an adviser, paid by the China government to advise Chinese businesses about marketing to the USA. He was given offices in Hangzhou, China. He deplores people who think money is a religious goal and accumulate money while 3/4th of the world starves and those who think that their way to heaven is church attendance on Sunday and more specifically the fraudulent “multi-millions” accumulated by “snake-oil” evangelists. THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST are not false words. The author is currently working on two larger books: “HOW I ESCAPED FEDERAL PRISON USING PSYCHOLOGY (and survival for 10 years as a fugitive)” and “SNAKE OIL SALESMEN stealing from the poor and depressed”.
This book tells the extraordinary journey of Sean Easley. Growing up as a Quaker in 1960's Philadelphia, Sean stands out as he challenges many of the accepted social norms. Despite the tremendous tensions of the times, he and his childhood friends, Sonny Goldman, a Jew; Louie Jackson, an exceptional black athlete; and Cassandra Washington, Sean's high school girlfriend who is also black, promise to be "always friends". Read "Toujours Amis" and discover the intrigue!
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