Suzanne Noakes

“Christian carefulness does not come out of a place of timidity or confusion. Rather, it stems from a deep awareness of the powerful intellectual effects of the fall and the reality-distorting power of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Judging by outward appearances tends to be useful in confirming what we already believed to be true, but it is not how God looks at the world”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

“If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

“The internet is an epistemological habitat that makes genuine wisdom difficult and unappealing.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

“Just as TV has certain rules that make it tend toward the frivolous and entertaining, the web has certain rules that make it tend toward the diffuse and distracting. But it also has a rule that pushes us away from slow and careful reflection and toward a kind of zombie-like pursuit of the next neurological reward:”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age