The Way of Technology

The Gospel of Silicon Valley

Technology shapes our lives, our work, and our future. At FaithTech, we believe God desires to move powerfully in and through this space and through us to transform lives.

Two Visions of Humanity’s Future

Ease or Excellence? Technology and Christianity Have Championed Both Visions. Is One Better? Editor’s Note: This essay the 3rd Place winner in FaithTech’s 2021 Writing Contest! See past winners here ! The Vision of Ease in Technology and in Christianity Who in their right mind wouldn’t want an easier life? This question seems to implicitly motivate much of the advancement of the tech industry. Se

Will Silicon Be Our Salvation?

In the world of technology, there is an idea called the singularity. It’s a future day when machines will empower humans to transcend our bodies and live eternally in the silicon and fiber of computers and the Internet. Man, living forever? That sounds familiar.

Can a Christian be a Transhumanist?

Faith in God and the Future of Humanity “All modern theories of life are to be understood against this backdrop of an ontology of death, from which each single life must coax or bully its lease, only to be swallowed up by it in the end.” –Hans Jonas The COVID-19 pandemic

Who “Makes” The Rules? Whose Labels to Use?

Living By the Spirit in the Age of Machine Learning Winner of FaithTech Institute’s 2020 Writing Contest ! Visitors to Google Codelabs’ TensorFlow tutorial will encounter two diagrams contrasting traditional computer programming with Machine Learning (ML): In traditional programming, rules are essentially hard coded “inputs” to systems that we will term “rule-following,” whereas in ML rules can b