Slow Tech Proponent to Give ‘World and Our Calling’ Lecture

Katie Day Good, associate professor of communication at Calvin University, is delivering a lecture at Redeemer University’s Albert M. Wolters Centre for Christian Scholarship for the university’s ongoing The World and Our Calling series next month (Feb. 2). Redeemer announced Good as the 2025 Emerging Public Intellectual in October. Her talk is titled “The Digital Hearth: On Sharing Screens and Stories in a Fragmented Age.”

The Emerging Public Intellectual award hosted by Redeemer and sponsored by six institutions working in academic and public life recognizes “those working in the Christian academy who excel in both academic and public spheres and whose work impacts the common good.”

Good’s doctoral research focused on emerging technologies in education and everyday life. In 2022 she cofounded Little Tech, a digital literacy service to foster healthy relationships with screens and technology.

She explores and writes about a movement toward sharing our screens—as much as diminishing their use—to combat the growing social isolation. “We are not only more alone and on screens, it seems, but more removed from the physical spaces and practices that have anchored us in communities and supported our search for meaning and purpose beyond the self,” Good wrote in a 2024 article for Christian Scholars’ Review. “If seeking God in communion with others, and loving and serving our neighbors, are foundational beliefs, perhaps our screen habits and media spaces deserve closer attention as fertile fields of action.”

Before starting at Calvin in 2024, Good taught at Miami University, seven years as an assistant professor and then two as associate professor of strategic communication.