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For the first of our episodes from September’s FPR conference After Virtual:  The Art of Recovering Lost Goods, we go to church.  Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman share thoughts on…
John Murdock
John Murdock
November 14, 2022

For the first of our episodes from September’s FPR conference After Virtual:  The Art of Recovering Lost Goods, we go to church.  Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman share thoughts on technology and embodied worship in a time of pandemic.  

Speakers:  Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman 

Highlights 

1:15 Carl Trueman 

3:00 Is it all Protestantism’s fault? 

4:00 How to take over an empire 

6:15 Reformations and technology 

11:00 Overlooked revolutionary sausages  

13:45 Our age of social acceleration  

16:45 A challenge to holy time 

19:00 A challenge to community 

20:00 Gregory Hogg 

20:15 Christians and plagues 

23:00 Masks and noble lies 

26:00 Vaccines and Canadians 

28:00 Virtual worship? 

30:00 Body and Church 

31:30 Charlie Cotherman 

32:00 Elisha’s physical engagement 

35:00 Resurrection, proximity, and presence 

39:00 Community and COVID tech 

42:30 To the statistics 

46:00 Invasive species and unholy shortcuts 

Resources 

Speaker bios 

Conference videos 

Save the date:  2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023) 

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents 

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John Murdock

John Murdock

John Murdock is an attorney and globetrotting localist who worked for over a decade in Washington, D.C.; left the Capital Beltway to write from a family farmhouse deep in the heart of the Lone Star state; taught law in South Korea; and then rode the housing waves of Boise. In 2023, John left the crisp dry air of Idaho and returned to the stifling humidity of his native east Texas. His writing is catalogued at johnmurdock.org.