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Surface Tensions: Searching for Sacred Connection in a Media-Saturated World
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For some, our media-saturated culture points to the decline of Western civilization; for others, it points to the dawn of a bright future. For Nathan Roberts, the mediated landscape is a place to thoughtfully engage with these tensions. This unique memoir, meditative and philosophical, chronicles Nathan's absorption in the vital, inspiring, and often maddening power of media and entertainment. With wry self-effacement and raw honesty, he calls us to conceive of media not only as an abstract, postmodern phenomenon, but as a digital architecture that creates real meeting space. Exploring social media, music, film, art, theater, standup comedy, and more, Nathan shows us a world of entertainment that reflects the universal hunger for connection.
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Nathan Roberts
Nathan Roberts graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Christian Life College in Stockton, California. Raised in a pastor’s home, he started in ministry in his mid-twenties and was ordained in 2015 after preaching and teaching the Gospel in multiple countries. He and his wife of thirty-nine years have two children.
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