Digital Distortion Doesn't Remain Digital

The church tends to worry about what appears on our screens: false claims, bad actors, content we shouldn't see. Those concerns are real. But the deeper problem is what our screens are doing to us. Digital platforms reorient our attention and reshape our instincts, and they form us even when the information they present is accurate.

We are being drawn into a world with its own gravity, and that gravity bends away from God's order. Digital discernment without theological depth is just information literacy. What the church needs is a mature, Spirit-formed capacity to distinguish good from evil (Heb 5:14) within a digital world organized around aims and assumptions contrary to God's kingdom.