From MercatorNet:

So the question provoked by Terminator Salvation is this: is being plain old Humanity 1.0 worthwhile — in spite of our messy emotions, cloudy intelligence, imperfect bodies and unavoidable death? Or should we aspire to move forward to Humanity 2.0?

I’ll just say that I find this very convicting.

We need to hear competing voices of information from the world around us, use our time in the digital world wisely, and learn to shut that world down when it becomes more important to get up in the morning and answer emails than it does to get up and read the Bible and pray.

A helpful reminder from Dr. Carson. Read the whole thing.

Read it again.

As you may know, I’m one of the contributors to Everyday Theology. The Spring ’08 Journal of Religion and Popular Culture carries a review by Bucknell University’s Paul Macdonald. I don’t agree with all of his conclusions, but it’s hard not to like the following:

The best essays, in my view, engage the most substantive and provocative cultural texts and trends: for example, The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (a text) and transhumanism (a trend), both raise important theological questions about the nature of the human person as well as the future of the human person, and thus rightly deserve more serious theological attention.