Move Slow, Heal Things (James 1:18-21)

About this episode

The episode discusses the negative effects of social media on real-world interactions and emphasizes the importance of moving slowly and healing rather than reacting in anger.

What happens online stays online, right? Surely the rage baiting and the angry comments sections don’t have an effect upon the real world? Well, we’re learning they do and perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising when we consider that for the first 6 years of Facebook’s existence, the official slogan emblazoned on the walls of its corporate headquarters was “Move Fast and Break Things.” It seems that the whole world has adopted that slogan, moving faster and faster and breaking more and more things. But the good news of Jesus invites us not to move fast or to break things but to move slow and heal things. The writer of James says to “be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.”

Topics covered

• anger management
• social media impact
• Christian teachings
• healing
• listening
• communication

Keywords

• social media
• anger
• healing
• listening
• Christianity
• James 1:18-21
• communication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Facebook

Books & works: James

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