Jason Castro

I was introduced to an awesome website called "Iamsecond.com". This is a website dedicated to sharing the testimonies of celebrities who once lived their lives of endless sin. And they share how God has saved them from their former lives. I love this website because it gives these famous celebrities the opportunity of sharing their testimony to the world and due to their high status people are more likely to listen to them!

Jason Castro is the one in the video above. He shares his testimony about how God is the only one He longs to serve. He longs to serve God during his time performing on stage as well. His life is a perfect example of the integrating of faith and technology. He was once a contestant on American Idol and due to his status from the show, people (his fans) are more than likely going to respond to his story about God's love for them. Technology may not be such a bad thing after all. Through Jason's time on television, people of the world are paying alot of attention to him. And they have the opportunity of being impacted by his life through tv or even the internet.

Michelle Weeks

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Michelle Weeks. Michelle is the Director of Residence life here at Montreat, as well as the Residence director of Anderson Dorm. She was so kind enough as to tell me her views on the integration of faith in learning and technology. Considering the fact that it is such a broad topic, Michelle chose to share her views and geared them more towards technology. She especially hit on popular communication websites such as facebook. While she agrees that technology and facebook are amazing resources, they arent necessarily as great as people make it out to be.
Michelle agrees that yes while technology can be very useful and is very enjoyable, there are some negative aspects about it as well. Michelle believes that our society is often deceived by these supposed "new ways of connecting", when in all reality we are hardly connected with the two hundred and something list of friends on our web profiles. We say we'll stay connected but there is not much truth to that at all. And another part that we are often deceived by is the fact that we say we are staying connected with our friends but in all reality it doesn't leave the computer screen. The real community is no longer existent.
As a christian as well, I would say that I agree with Michelle's view on technology. YES, it is absolutely amazing, I'm able to keep connected with some long-distant friends, however, it doesn't get any further than that. God created us to be relation able but through more of a community and not simply through a computer screen. Technology is awesome but balancing it out with real solid relationships would be alot better. And I believe we would see a vast difference for the good in society.

A weekend I will never forget

This past weekend, I was given the opportunity of visiting Liberty University with some friends. I was in a huge debate over this. I had the choice of either going home or visiting Liberty. Well, after much indecisiveness, I finally chose to visit Liberty.

It was a nasty weekend, the rain just kept pouring and therefore that made our 4 hour drive a tad bit stressful but we did have some fun singing on the way there. In so many words I would say that we had to make our own fun. The campus was huge and I was immediately hit with the unending list of rules that come with attending this school. I was already unintentionally breaking a rule. I wore a skirt that came above my knees and that would of been a huge "no,no" for liberty students. There is a strict dress code there. I wont list all the rules but they made Liberty seem very legalistic.

In short, I will say that I was extremely grateful afterwards that I attend Montreat College.I don't think Ive ever been so ready to come back. I don't mean to "diss" any one's fondness of Liberty. There were some elements of Liberty I really enjoyed such as the nice people I came in contact with. However, I'm saying that it would never be the school for me. I appreciate my school of freedom to do as I please, while still maintaining the vision of a christian community.