Geekklesia

 A few nights ago, I sat down (virtually) with three other geeky pastors to talk about our geeky hobbies, and how they are intersecting with our vocations as pastors in our different churches.  On the panel sat Ben Avery, one of the hosts of the Strangers and Aliens podcast and children's pastor at Nappanee Missionary Church in Indiana, Hector Miray, author of the Faith and Fandom series of books and host of the Faith and Fandom podcast and Location Pastor at Vertical Church in North Carolina, and Derek White, a.k.a. the Geek Preacher, one of the hosts of the Dungeon Pastors vlog and pastor at Matthews Memorial UMCin Tennessee. Part 1 was posted to the Geekklesia Facebook page . Part 2 has just been posted.

I'm always thinking about what I want to say here as well as over at the Facebook and Google +  companion page for this site. But I don't limit myself to just the what; I also think about the why.  Why do I seek to post nuggets of interest (perhaps only of interest to me), and look for ways that these nuggets can illustrate spiritual truth? I think it is because we live in an essentially pagan culture. And by pagan, I mean a culture that is biblically illiterate at is core.  A culture that, for all of its technological advances, is deeply wary, even cynical, when it comes to faith. The 21st century is in many ways like the first century: despite pockets of believers, the wider world just doesn't know. I recently saw a meme that claimed that geeks are people for whom the details matter. I'd also add that geeks also embrace the possibilities. According to the Bible, mankind (both male and female) were created in the image of God. We aare introduced to God in Gene...