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Taking the “Selfie Challenge”

Craig Detweiler, Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2018).

How do you view yourself? Do selfies bolster or undercut those feelings? What does God say and feel about you? – Craig Detweiler, Selfies (27)

Introduction

If you follow the Emerging Scholars Network on Facebook or Twitter, you’ll remember that last week I posted a series of quotes from Craig Detweiler’s Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age. My motivation was for us to wrap up the summer and engage the new academic year well.

Craig Detweiler’s reflections and practices assist us not only in remembering with praise / gratitude who the Lord has created / called us to be (serving with head, heart, and hands in a particular context), but also as we have opportunity to invite others to hear our story / testimony as a child of God part of the reality of God’s work in the creation. My experience of dropping off our first child headed to college inspired me to write a short reflection on Selfies.
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What Would Jesus Post on Social Media?

Have you ever felt the shot of excitement – the dopamine rush – that comes when someone ‘likes’ your photo or status on Instagram and Facebook?  Well dear reader, you are not alone. In 2015, Instagram reportedly exceeded 400 million users with 40 billion photos posted. The popularity and increasing use of social media has been a growing area of heated debate and controversy topic in the past couple of years, in both Christian and secular circles. But how does social media affect us in regard to God’s mission? Adam Jeske (website) (twitter) addresses this question in this afternoon’s seminar.

Adam Jeske: What Would Jesus Post on Social Media?

From Dec 27 – Jan 1, volunteers with our network of early career Christian academics are liveblogging seminars at the Urbana conference, a mission-focused student gathering of 16,000 Christians from across North America and the world. This post was co-written by May Yuan and Vivian Chen.

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