St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

It feels strange to write something like “learning to be human” but, alas, this is where we find ourselves. If the defining characteristic of our advanced technological state has left us more anxious and alienated—lonely—then we have to ask why. Ironically, it seems the push with our digital screens is to make us less human, trans-human, or to denigrate our embodied state, as if our bodies are a hindrance and are holding us back. Our quest for glory and immutability has left us less human and wondering where the promised land is that technology promised us.            We serve an immutable God who, as one writer says, “[is]without any new nature, new thought, new will, new purpose or new place…God is a necessary being; he is necessarily what he is, and therefore is unchangeably what he is.” (Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God) We, on the other hand, are finite and live in time; we are totally mutable and must change and grow in order to become the persons God meant us to be. Biblically spea