Should We Give Thanks for Technology?
“There are no bad things,” declared G.K. Chesterton, “only bad uses of things.” Anyone who has seen the Terminator franchise—or simply spent a day with an iPhone—cannot help but wonder if our friend Gilbert wasn’t afflicted with a little naivete here. Is social media, in fact, social? Does Microsoft Teams, in fact, foster teamwork? What has email done to, well, mail? Join the Troubadours as we ask (and answer!), “Should we be giving thanks for technology?” What’s more, in total Troubadour tradition, the felicitous five won’t be sharing just good insights about modern communication technology but good advice as well.
In the meantime enjoy last month’s summit: Beyond the Election: Long-term Answers for a Broken World.
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About the Troubadours Summit
The Troubadours Summit Series is an outgrowth of an annual symposium in Fort Scott, Kansas called the Prairie Troubadour.
Faithful to Holy Mother Church, The Troubadours are a group of friends inspired by the likes of Cardinal Newman, G.K. Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, John Senior, and other stalwarts of the Faith, to live and share the Joy of Christ through stories, song and good red wine. Through our online summit series, we aim to create an authentic Catholic experience where the Good, the True and the Beautiful are glimpsed through lively discourse punctuated by earnest prayer, strong drink, and the real mirth found in friendship.
Catholicism needn’t be stodgy and narrow. Quite the contrary! As G.K. Chesterton reminds us, the walls built by the Church through doctrine and discipline are not the walls of a prison, but the “walls of a playground.”
And, as Belloc wrote, “Wherever the Catholic Sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino.”
Indeed it is so. Let us bless the Lord!
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The Original Troubadour
The Prairie Troubadour is named in memoriam of poet, song-writer and man of the Kansas prairie, Gerald Francis Kerr (1944-2015). Dr. Kerr was a patriarch, physician, poet, farmer, troubadour, true Kansan and lover of the prairie. A Catholic son and beloved husband, he was father of 6 and papa to 31 grand-children. Click below to hear one of his recordings, Raggedy Man, an original composition based on a poem by James Whitcomb Riley.
