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Kresta in the Afternoon – February 7, 2023 – Hour 2

How can we order our lives in a hyper-mediated digital world? Paul Patton joins us.

 

How can we order our lives in a hyper-mediated digital world?

Have you ever just wanted to just go back to a world without smartphones and social media? We can take breaks from mass media, but like it or not is here to stay. Paul Patton joins us to propose a process he calls mindful media attachment: promoting the holy habits of sacred intentionality, sacred interiority, and sacred identity.

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Backstage with Paul Patton 

Paul D. Patton is the co-author of Everyday Sabbath: How to Lead your Dance with Media and Technology in Mindful and Sacred Ways. He’s professor Emeritus of Communication and Media at Spring Arbor University in Michigan. He is also an ordained minister and trained counselor. He was on the pastoral staff at Trinity Church in Metro Detroit from 1978-1993, where he founded Trinity House Theater, an experiment in the integration of Christian faith and the theater arts. He is the author of over thirty produced stage plays, radio plays, and performance essays.
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