Integrating Technology into Faith Formation

Published on Aug 07, 2017

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Integrating Technology

INTO FAITH FORMATION

Today's World

A BASIC SKETCH
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Most Homes

3 or More Smart Phones

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77%

Roughly three-quarters of Americans own a smartphone.

After modest decline between 2013 and 2015

In 2016 Americans with home broadband + 6 percentage points

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Half the public

NOW OWNS A TABLET COMPUTER
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CHRISTIANITY

IS DECLINING IN THE UNITED STATES
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1 in 3 Millennials

REFUSE TO IDENTIFY WITH A RELIGIOUS TRADITION
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Religious Decline

CANADA AND EUROPE
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Christian Smith

Sociologist at Notre Dame
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MTD info here

"These are not normal times. The spiritual crisis the West faces is worse than anything since the fifth-century fall of the Roman Empire."

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Everyday Practices

SPIRITUALITY ADAPTED TO ORDINARY CHRISTIAN LIFE IN THE WORLD
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MIDDLE AGES

CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES
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"In the early Middle Ages, the churches and the monasteries were those tiny arks carrying the faith and the faithful across a dark and stormy sea."

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"MTD has displaced authentic Christianity as the true religion of American Christians."

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"In M.T.D., the highest goal of the religious life is being happy and feeling good about oneself. It's the perfect religion for a self-centered, consumerist culture. But it is not Christianity."

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