Spirituality in a Digital Age: A Talk given at Greenbelt 2014
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A brief talk focussing on the resources available for spiritual development and connectivity in a digital age
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Spirituality in a Digital Age: A Talk given at Greenbelt 2014
- 1. Spirituality in a Digital Age Pete Phillips : CODEC : University of Durham Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 2. Using the digital to re-member our existence and our context Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 3. Remember Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 4. Remember Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 5. Remember Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 6. Remember to remember - outboard brain Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 7. Remember to re-member Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 8. Remembering to build a future Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light Deuteronomy 18 You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem[e] on your forehead. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
- 9. Remembering to build a future Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light Bible Society “Pass It On” Report: http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/our-work/pass-it-on/
- 10. Remembering is not just data retrieval, info-edu-tainment-esque Remembering is engaging with both past and future to create a new relationship with the now. Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 11. Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light Art by Tabor Robak (http://www.taborrobak.com/2014/) Music by Mumford and Sons
- 12. Incorporating Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light Art by Tabor Robak (http://www.taborrobak.com/2014/) Music by Fatima al Qadiri
- 13. Making the digital a real part of who we are: Ready Player One Shoto’s Grief Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 14. Incorporating into our being Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 15. Incorporating to be Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light Kierkegaard’s Geese...2
- 16. Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light Composed by Kathryn Rose (http://www.artsyhonker.net) Words by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- 17. Connecting & Engaging Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light So much to link to So much to see So much to consume So much to share So much to create So much to read So much to watch So much more... ...every minute
- 18. Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light Digital Spirituality... A decision to bridge the digital divides... Age, connectivity, location, wealth, technology, power, culture, gender
- 19. Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 20. Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light A veritable of opportunities for digital spirituality
- 21. • Digital Spirituality is not about tech, or data, or the overabundance of information • Digital Spirituality is about the disciple’s heart, the disciples desire to serve the living God. Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 22. Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light Abide Digital Spirituality, summed up in one word:
- 23. A prayer written by Sister Catherine Wybourne, DigitalNun Father, Creator God, You sent your Word, Jesus Christ, to reveal your love and compassion to the world; you have called us to be his disciples, true images of your beloved Son, proclaiming his Gospel to all creation. His story is now our story. Keep us faithful to what we have received, and generous in our sharing. Holy Father, we thank you also for the gift of the Holy Spirit whom you sent to sanctify and bless all you have created and be the bond of love that unites all of us with you and your Son. Send forth your Spirit upon us now. Purify our hearts and make us attentive to your promptings that we may be true missionaries in the digital world. Grant us the humility to seek you above and before all other things that all we say and do may be done in your name and for your glory. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
- 24. Spirituality in a Digital Age Pete Phillips : CODEC : University of Durham Greenbelt 2014: Travelling Light
Editor's Notes
- "A certain flock of geese lived together in a barnyard with high walls around it. Because the corn was good and the barnyard was secure, these geese would never take a risk. One day a philosopher goose came among them. He was a very good philosopher and every week they listened quietly and attentively to his learned discourses. 'My fellow travellers on the way of life,' he would say, 'can you seriously imagine that this barnyard, with great high walls around it, is all there is to existence? I tell you, there is another and a greater world outside, a world of which we are only dimly aware. Our forefathers knew of this outside world. For did they not stretch their wings and fly across the trackless wastes of desert and ocean, of green valley and wooded hill? But alas, here we remain in this barnyard, our wings folded and tucked into our sides, as we are content to puddle in the mud, never lifting our eyes to the heavens which should be our home. The geese thought this was very fine lecturing. 'How poetical,' they thought. 'How profoundly existential. What a flawless summary of the mystery of existence.' Often the philosopher spoke of the advantages of flight, calling on the geese to be what they were. After all, they had wings, he pointed out. What were wings for, but to fly with? Often he reflected on the beauty and the wonder of life outside the barnyard, and the freedom of the skies. And every week the geese were uplifted, inspired, moved by the philosopher's message. They hung on his every word. They devoted hours, weeks, months to a thoroughgoing analysis and critical evaluation of his doctrines. They produced learned treatises on the ethical and spiritual implications of flight. All this they did. But one thing they never did. They did not fly! For the corn was good, and the barnyard was secure!"