Today's podcast is dedicated to answering a listener-submitted question (Thank you amazing listeners!), and it also happens to be one of the more common questions we hear from parents: When should my child get a smartphone? This conversation is foundational to...
Nathan Sutherland
Nathan is the co-founder of Gospel Tech and a former teacher. He's married to his best friend, Anna, and is dad to three kiddos. His passion is seeing families set free—and is committed to proclaiming the good news of Jesus.
Discerning Digital Wolves
When was the last time you were on social media and saw something in your feed that made you absolutely elated? How about viscerally made? Perhaps a news headline, a post from a stranger, a video clip? The point is this: These big reactions from snippets online are...
61. What Do We Do With Tech Prodigals?
We talk a lot on this podcast about how the Gospel empowers our actions, about how it helps us raise kids who love God and use tech, but what about when our child makes poor choices on purpose? What if we've done all the right stuff and they simply refuse to go along...
Does The Gospel Apply To Technology?
I had a conversation with a young man not long ago about tech and the Gospel in which he smirked and said, "Why do you talk about those together? They’re not even related." It's an understandable reaction in our current culture. Even believers separate the idea of God...
60. The Art of the Dumb Phone: An interview with Chris Kaspar of Techless
Modern life often requires we adopt digital tech, but some tech has been slow to drop the Drool tech and enhance the Tool tech. Today we talk with Chris Kaspar, founder of Techless and the Wisephone—a phone for those who want a phone, pure and simple. Chris talks to...
What can I do if my child’s tech use isn’t healthy (RESET – Part 2)
We've talked previously about how to assess if our child's tech use is healthy, but what now? What can we do if it's not healthy? A healthy, loving response should have three parts: 1. Set healthful boundaries. There is a big difference between accountability and...
59. How Should The Gospel Impact Our Social Media?
When we go online we need to act out of the truth of the Gospel. The Gospel transforms us, it changes who we are, what we want, and why we want it. So when we go online, the same is true. Today we walk through how the Gospel changes our social media use. We’ll base...
How Do I Know if My Child’s Tech Use Is Healthy? (RESET – part 1)
Joseph is 9. He loves legos, baseball, and riding his bike in the neighborhood with his friends. A few weeks ago he asked his parents if he could play a game on his school laptop instead of his usual tv time. He'd been asking a lot and they decided that, since it was...
58. “You Love Your Tech More Than You Love Me”.
We need to learn how to talk about tech, especially in our marriages. Today we talk about lessons we learned from a reason tech-instigated kerfuffle and how we can all apply these lessons to strengthen our resolve to truly love one another as God has called us to, and...
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