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Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland
Gospel Tech is a resource for parents who are feeling outpaced and overwhelmed as they raise children in a tech world.
Our goal: Equip parents with the tools, resources, and confidence they need to raise kids who love God and use tech.
Gospel Tech’s mission is to equip families to love God and use tech. We want to empower parents to:
Talk about healthy tech
Communicate the Gospel
Connect the hope of the Gospel to their everyday tech lives
Introduction to Gospel Tech
Three years ago I (Nathan)…
Episodes
Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland69. Why Should We Connect The Gospel To Our Tech?
Our lives are awash in big questions: politics, education, faith, technology--the number of things we're expected, as parents, to get right is staggering…
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68. "I sure wish...", setting tech standards for our families
It's easy to miss the moments to teach our children healthful tech. It's equally easy to feel overwhelmed when we realize we're faced with one of those…
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67. Three Steps Every Parent Can Take With Tech
Today we'll address three steps every parent can take to address healthy tech with their kids. If you feel like tech in your family is an uphill battle, or…
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66. How To Spot An Addictive Video Game.
Addictive video game design isn’t some kind of voodoo magic. It’s a science. We can look at a game and very quickly assess whether it is designed to be…
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65. Three Ways Your Family Can Have Healthier Tech
As parents we want answers. We don't want theory, we want actionable steps we can take right now. If my kid isn’t sleeping I don’t want a bunch of research…
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64. We Must Engage News With The Gospel
There's a lot of news and information available in the digital world. What we don't need is one more talking head telling us what to think about current…
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63. Are Video Games Addictive?
We need to understand this conversation in order to apply the Gospel to this area of our tech. We need to understand: what we mean by addiction what make video…
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62. When Should My Child Get A Smartphone?
Today's podcast is dedicated to answering a listener-submitted question (Thank you amazing listeners!), and it also happens to be one of the more common…
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61. What Do We Do With Tech Prodigals?
We talk a lot on this podcast about how we can intentionally raise healthy youth in a tech world. We talk a lot about the Gospel and how it empowers our…
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60. The Art of the Dumb Phone: An interview with Chris Kaspar of Techless
Modern life often requires we adopt digital tech, but some tech has been slow to drop the Drool tech and enhance the Tool tech. Today we talk with Chris…
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59. How Should The Gospel Impact Our Social Media?
When we go online we need to act out of the truth of the Gospel. The Gospel transforms us, it changes who we are, what we want, and why we want it. So when we…
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58. "You Love Your Tech More Than You Love Me".
We need to learn how to talk about tech, especially in our marriages. Today we talk about lessons we learned from a reason tech-instigated kerfuffle and how we…
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57. How Do I Keep The Internet Safe For My Child?
Today’s podcast is going to focus entirely on a question asked by a concerned parent: “What are the best tools, workshops, and tips for protecting our families…
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56. Parents: Let's Make Time For God's Word
We get told a lot of things in a day: our kids tell us what they want from us. our spouse tells us what he or she needs. our boss tells us (usually) that we…
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55. The First Anniversary Episode!
Today marks one year of doing this podcast! A year ago Anna and I sat in our kitchen trying to figure out how to do this podcast thing. I spent two hours…
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54. Seven Steps To Healthy Tech (Part 2)
Today we complete our conversation about the seven steps to healthy tech. Do you want to have healthy tech? Do you want to know what to do if your tech isn't…
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53. Seven Steps To Healthy Tech (Part 1)
In the last two years of running Gospel Tech I've been asked the same question a LOT: "What does my family need to do to fix our tech?" Today I'm diving in to…
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52. How Can We Find Ways To Say Yes To Analog Adventures?
Let’s be real: The reason Drool Tech is so prevalent as an outlet for kids and adults is it’s SO convenient and it works SO well! Sometimes we just need that…
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51. We Got Rid Of Our TV!
Anna's back on the podcast! Today we look at the norm of TV in culture and push back on it a little bit. We’re not saying you need to throw your TVs out the…
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50. What Can I Do If My Tech Isn't Healthy?
We all make mistakes, and our tech lives are no exception. So what can we do if our tech isn’t healthy? We ask God to give us new hearts that want to do his…
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49. How Do I Know If My Tech Use Is Healthy?
Let's start this year of right with a reminder of the Gospel and a clear look at how we can know if our tech use is healthy. Today we'll talk about: The good…
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48. The Gospel Tech Handbook (Part 2)
Today we’re talking about HOW to make a Family Tech Framework. We know it’s something we SHOULD do, but it feels overwhelming. Where do we start? We start by…
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47. The Gospel Tech Handbook (Part 1)
The Gospel Tech Handbook is here! As part of the Gospel Tech workshop this tool empowers parents to be the tech resource for their kids, so you don't have to…
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46. Connecting Our Tech To Advent
As we look forward to Christmas we remember what Advent is all about: The coming of the long-promised Messiah, the fulfillment of God's promise to fix the…
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45. Interview with David Murrow: Drowning In Screen Time
There are three amazing tidbits David Murrow gives in our interview with him today: we need to fix our eyes on Jesus, not on Facebook. (5:45) We need to be…
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44. The Second Conversation Every Parent Must Have With Their Child
If we don’t talk to our kids early and often about technology, about the allure, benefits and dangers, Big Tech is more than happy to step in. There are four…
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43. Re-Establish Fun: Reading Books
There are lots of reasons to read, but four major reasons to make it a priority when looking for analog adventures are that it: Expands vocabulary. Improves…
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42. Re-Establishing Fun: Board Game Edition
Board games are amazing at creating adventure and amazement rather than simply consuming other people having such experiences. If you want to research games on…
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41. Re-Establishing Tech Boundaries for Sleep
Today we’re talking about sleep in three facets: Biblical model for rest and rejuvenation The science behind sleep How your (and your children’s tech) disrupts…
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40. Interview with Dina Alexander: Educate and Empower Kids
Dina Alexander started Educate and Empower Kids (educateempowerkids.org) as a resource to help parents fight for their kids in a tech world. She especially…
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39. So You Already Gave Your Child a Smartphone...What Now?
Many parents we speak with talk about feeling trapped in the smartphone conversation. They're concerned about problems a smartphone may cause, or even see the…
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38. Re-Establishing Tech Boundaries: Accountability vs. Control
Today we're continuing our conversation about how to Re-Establish tech boundaries specifically with a discussion focused on the important difference between…
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37. The Social Dilemma
Here are the promised resources for learning more on this subject: The Techwise Family, Andy Crouch Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport Glow Kids, Nicholas…
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36. Re-Establishing Tech Boundaries With Others
“Boundaries define us. They define what is me and what is not me. A boundary shows me where I end and where someone else begins. Knowing what I am to own and…
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35. What Should We Do Instead of Drool Tech?
Most of us have formed some tech ruts over the last few months. We've got habits that we want to change, but where do we start? Most families live with their…
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34. A Step-by-Step Walkthrough: Making a Family Tech Framework
Today we're walking through the nitty gritty of actually creating a tech framework in one of the four areas of Drool Tech. The four primary areas for Drool…
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33. How To Make a Family Tech Policy
A family tech policy, or what we call a Family Tech Framework, is a powerful tool to re-establishing tech norms. It can also be something we agree with in…
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32. Re-Establishing Tech Boundaries
If you're anything like us you've probably found yourself at the end of seven months of quarantine (thanks Covid) with some tech habits that are less than…
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31. Interview with Roger Smith
Roger Smith is a 30 year educator in the public schools. He’s also the VP of Northwest Basketball Camps, the largest basketball camp organization in the United…
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30. The Gospel Empowers Us
Today we’re in the 6th and final episode of the Gospel Filter Series! We’re going to tie it all together in the idea that the Gospel is the reminder that we…
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29. The Gospel Enables Optimism
The penultimate addition to the Gospel Filter series is here! In episode 5 of 6 we're addressing how the Gospel enables optimism. We’re natural cynics. We look…
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28. The Gospel Establishes Truth
In this episode Anna and I walk through how the Gospel lovingly establishes a basis for truth in our lives, which in turn lets us make intentional decisions…
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27. The Gospel Eradicates Passivity
Quick Recap: The Gospel is foundational to our tech because it impacts everything we do. We've discussed previously how the Gospel is a "been done", it's good…
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26. The Gospel Eliminates Arrogance
Arrogance is so common place sometimes we begin to admire it rather than hate it. We consider it confidence, or swagger, or some sort of independent mindedness…
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25. The Introduction To A Gospel Filter
What do the ancient Persians, long-distance running, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ all have in common? Technology! And more specifically the Gospel Filter…
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24. Why Your Child Doesn't Need a Smartphone
The smart phone conversation starts early in families these days, and once it starts it seems to go on forever. My six year old son came home from kindergarten…
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23. Recalling Parenting Truths
This episode is designed to help us as parents remember our role and recall important parenting truths. We address four lies we believe as parents about the…
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22. Rob Mayer - Connecting the Gospel
Today we get the opportunity to talk with my friend, and pastor (@gospellifechurch), Rob Mayer about what it looks like to apply the gospel to our daily tech…
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21. Seven Lies Tech Tells Us
Tech makes promises it can't keep. It promises: You’ll get rich quick You’ll be happy You’ll have a purpose You’ll be famous You’ll be wanted You’ll be in…
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20. How Do We Address Pornography With Our Kids? (with Greta Eskridge)
Pornography is a topic we don't even like to admit is a thing. There's so much shame, guilt and confusion (along with a healthy slice of denial) in the area of…
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19. Pursuing Our Kids
Today we get to talk about intentionally pursuing our children and what that looks like when we are often competing with tech for time (either our own tech use…
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18. The Lie of Anonymity
Today we're going to talk about the lie of anonymity. It's one of the most painful lies we believe in Drool Tech today. We are invited to believe we can be…
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17. Make Your Smart Phone a Dumb Phone
It's easy to find ourselves using our phones when we don't need to be. My personal favorite is finding myself swiping through social media when I'm supposed to…
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16. How Do I Raise Kids Who Love God?
Gospel Tech is a resource to help families love God and use tech, so today we’re going to dive into the second half of that: How do I raise my kids to love…
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15. We Had To Make a Screentime Schedule!
This week Anna is back and we share a conversation that's been going on for a couple weeks now: What to do once the kids are in bed! Maybe it's the Covid…
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14. Top 4 Questions Parents Ask About Tech
There's a short list of questions that come up a lot. Today we're going to address the top four: 1. Should my child have a smart phone? 2. How much time should…
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13. The Perks of Being Unavailable
Anna and I get a chance to discuss the perks of being unavailable, both in our tech lives and in the craziness of regular life. There are lots of reasons we…
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12. Transparent Tech
Today we’re going to talk about Transparent Tech—how do we lovingly keep tech open to conversation and in line with who we are and what we are called to be…
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11. Creating Analog Adventures
It's one thing to know my kid's had too much tech, it's entirely another to know what I can do about it! In the episode we talk about this idea of analog…
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10. Tech Wins
It's been three weeks - how is it going? I know in our house, Pre Covid, the kids watched minimal TV. In Covid times, Miss Frizzle comes on once/day to teach…