BY JAMES FENIMORE
The success of media ministry and the rise of worship technologies in churches have not been universal. The construction and the implementation of media used in worship services have been dominated by men. While women are not completely absent from the field of media ministry, they are significantly underrepresented. One explanation could be theological: The churches employing media ministry most successfully are Evangelical churches, which often have patriarchal theological understandings of worship leadership. However, in the first decade of the new millennium mainline Protestant churches have rapidly appropriated worship technologies; women are also less represented than might be expected. This paper explores these worship technologies and explores the question, ‘Do worship technologies have gender politics?

BY KRISTINE SUNA-KORO
Eileen Crowley’s two studies of the promises as well as the perils of media arts in Christian worship survey one of the most passionately debated topics in liturgical practice across denominational lines. As such, these two volumes fall into the category of “must read” for both media-philes and media-phobes, among professional theologians as well as local communities of worship and their professional or volunteer liturgical media artists.

BY CHRISTOPHER LIBBY
In Taming the Beloved Beast, Daniel Callahan, senior researcher and president emeritus at the Hastings Center, synthesizes his long-standing concern for the relationship between technology (the “beloved beast” of the title) and the goals of medicine with his more recent engagement with healthcare economics and policy.

BY WHITNEY BAUMAN
Laid out in four main parts, this book deals with humanity’s relationship to the rest of the natural world, religious responses to ecological crises, the debates over technological modification of life, and the politics of how we might deal with a future that includes humans and our technologies as part of a planetary community.