Resound #10 — Jeff Sajdak and Aaron Einfeld on Smartphones and Spiritual Health

What do smartphones have to do with our spiritual health? Calvin Seminary recently held a Smartphone Retreat to discern as a community the ways we use our smartphones and the effects they have on us. We found that for many of us, our smartphone use shows signs of addictive patterns, and that for all of us, we can reflect on what we do with our moments, minutes, and “downtime” throughout the day, and the implications this has for our spiritual lives and our life together in community.

Jeff Sajdak is Dean of Students at Calvin Seminary.

Aaron Einfeld is Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management at Calvin Seminary.

Show Notes

• Read our Smartphone Retreat Overview and Exercises
• See our Recommended Books on Digital Technology and Culture
• Watch Manoush Zomorodi’s TED talk and browse her book Bored and Brilliant
• Read “An Apology For the Internet From the People Who Built It” from New York magazine