smartphone apps — Podcast Episodes

S6E7 - For-Profit Prayer Apps: Good for the Soul?

How do you pray? In the morning? With friends from church? How about with your smartphone? Millions of people already are, and paying a subscription to do so. And Big Tech thinks you will too. Are Prayer Apps good for the soul? Adam and Chris dive into the spiritual, and financial, realities of Prayer Apps and this new pay-to-pray world.

Podcast Episode, Season 6Adam GraberFebruary 14, 2022prayer, smartphone apps, silicon valley, venture capital, investment, spiritual formation, discipleship, funding, business models, digital health, entrepreneurs, faith, habits

S6E1 - Is My Smartphone Listening to Me?

Podcast Episode, Season 6Chris RidgewayNovember 7, 2021smartphone apps, privacy, digit, social media, marketing

S5E4 - Interview: GrubHub Co-Founder Mike Evans

So the founder of GrubHub—the original guy who started the app from his Chicago apartment—just gave us a call. Here’s what he thinks about the ethics of what he made—in this interview with Device & Virtue. Order some takeout, and listen while you wait.

Season 5, Podcast EpisodeAdam GraberSeptember 29, 2020food delivery apps, food, apps, smartphone apps, online ordering, grubhub, business models, entrepreneurs

S5E3 - Food Delivery Apps: GrubHub, Ghost Kitchens, and Tacos-On-Demand

Season 5, Podcast EpisodeAdam GraberSeptember 14, 2020food delivery apps, smartphone apps, food, theology, eucharist, communion, table

S5E1 - In TikTok We Trust?

TikTok? Have you installed the world’s newest social media app? Your church youth group sure has. China, dancing cats, and Adam’s new obsession. Can Christians trust TikTok?

Season 5, Podcast EpisodeChris RidgewayAugust 4, 2020TikTok, social media, Christianity, China, government, smartphone apps, censorship, data protection, election

S4E5 - Too Close for Comfort? Contact Tracing, Big Brother, and Loving Your Neighbor

Apple, Google, and governments around the world are cooking up a new way to trace where you’ve been and who you’ve talked to. Sound like Big Brother? It may actually help you to love your neighbor.

Season 4, Podcast EpisodeAdam GraberApril 22, 2020proximity apps, apps, smartphone apps, coronavirus, covid-19, big brother, contact tracing, love your neighbor, Christian privacy, government, apple, Google, public health, social distancing