Evangelization through tech detox? Replacing digital connectivity with human connection
“We are not designed to be sedentary, screen-staring, meaning-devoid creatures.”
Isaiah Ballard watched with glee as his iPhone splashed into the Missouri River and began to sink.
In December 2023, the then-freshman at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. had become so fed up with his screen addiction that he decided to chuck his iPhone into the river, at the invitation of a professor.
It was, perhaps, the m…