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Amen and amen.

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Terry, you may find the conversation that Haidt had with Andy Crouch on The Trinity Forum of interest as it does touch on religion/spirituality

https://www.ttf.org/portfolios/online-conversation-with-andy-crouch/. Also, my husband and I recently published a piece that addressed questions of spirituality in the digital age, see From Blackboards to Black Vestments: Where Do We Put Our Trust? https://pilgrimsinthemachine.substack.com/p/from-blackboards-to-black-vestments. Finally, your students may find the Unmachining Self-Assessment in today's post an interesting approach to explore digital tech habits, see https://pilgrimsinthemachine.substack.com/p/getting-out-of-the-fishbowl-the-unmachining-d92. Will look forward to your interview with Haidt :)

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Now THAT’s what I call a comment! Thank you. I’ll follow these links. Attention folks!

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Ha - Well you wrote on an a topic close to my heart :) Also, I had meant to add a reading list that we curated (with input from Paul Kingsnorth, Mary Harrington, and our readers) that would be of interest to your students, see Unmachined Words: A Reading List to Keep You Human https://schooloftheunconformed.substack.com/p/unmachined-words-a-reading-list-to?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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Excellent post. Parents need to stop giving kids & teens smartphones, tablets, and unrestricted &/or private computer or tv access.

Homeschool at all costs, and join with other parents who don't give kids phones & devices, or else their kids will just be on other kids' devices constantly, and be the "odd man out" amongst their peers for not having them.

This is very do-able, especially in the traditional Catholic community. Maybe among serious, homeschooling Protestants as well.

And parents need to work HARD on restricting their own media access, both in time and content. It's how evil spirits are influencing us.

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These types of comments are clearly written by boomers who have no realization of how to raise kids in this Era, you guys had it easy as parents whose talks with their kids stopped at, "go play and stay out of my hair all day (so I can do what I want)".

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Jonathan Haidt is an atheist and he’s way more serious about limiting phone-kid culture than most believers I know.

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May 11·edited May 11

Yes, I agree. Even committed Christians aren't seeing the damage to kids (and themselves) from media & devices, or else they're seeing it but not changing their lives in response. The whole thing is massively addictive and satanic.

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I'm not a boomer, my kids are still in school, and I have had to do the whole homeschooling / media & device culture with them. It's much harder to protect kids from cultural insanity and danger these days, and requires a lot more planning than parents had to do in the pre-device times of earlier decades. But it's worth the effort, because the damage from media, in time & content, to kids is tremendous.

I was just saying it can be done, with a lot of work and a **LOT** of willingness to go against the grain, and determination to link up with others doing the same thing. God bless you & your loved ones.

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