Technology profoundly shapes us as we go about our daily lives. From how we communicate with others to how we access information, technology influences how we think, interact, and make decisions. The impact is even more pronounced in the next generation as children grow up immersed in a digital world.

Navigating the digital world with wisdom and discernment is increasingly important as the use of technology rises exponentially. In this webinar, we will consider what it looks like to cultivate rhythms that guide our use of technology. We will explore how to steward technology and safeguard our values. Please join us as we explore opportunities and challenges presented by using technology in our churches, communities, and individual lives.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time:  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (MST)
Location: Zoom

About the Panelists

Andy Crouch

Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch): The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling.

Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae’s 2014 single “Non-Fiction.”

From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Felicia Wu Song

Felicia Song is a sociologist who studies the social and cultural effects of digital technologies on community and identity in contemporary life. Trained in history, communication studies, and sociology from Yale, Northwestern, and University of Virginia, she has taught at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and been Professor of Sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA.

She is author of “Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age” (Intervarsity Press Academic 2021). This book explores how our contemporary digital habits fundamentally form us in ways that shape loves and imaginations of what it means to be human. This book binds sociology and theology together, arguing that both are needed for understanding how to live wisely in a digitally saturated society Her prior research includes her first book, “Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together (2009) which examined the democratic efficacy of online communities, and other studies on expectant women’s online information-seeking habits and the evolution of “mommy bloggers”.

She recently moved to Portland, Oregon, but speaks, teaches, and consults around the world with Christian faith communities and leaders, universities, and seminaries on how we can work collectively towards living more humane lives in a digitally-saturated and consumer-oriented society. When she is not working, she enjoys finding good bagels, donuts, shaved ice shops, and food trucks with her husband and two teenaged children. She daydreams of becoming proficient with the bass guitar.

Moderated By

Dr. Mark Husbands, President of Denver Seminary

Dr. Mark Husbands, Denver Seminary’s eighth president, is an accomplished theologian, scholar, and leader in Christian higher education. An abiding commitment to the Centrality of Christ, the truth and efficacy of God’s Word, academic excellence, moral theology, and World Christianity has been central to his leadership and work as a theologian. Motivated to help students connect their faith and learning to the deepest needs and challenges of the world, Dr. Husbands has enriched the lives of many students throughout his many years of teaching and academic leadership. 

Dr. Husbands earned a BA in Religious Studies with a minor in Music Performance from York University, followed by a master’s in theology from Wycliffe College at University of Toronto (Toronto School of Theology), where he studied the language philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger. He completed his PhD in Christian Theology at the University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto under the mentorship of renowned theologian John Webster, focusing on Karl Barth’s ethics of prayer.