A Lonely World and Our Christian School

Earlier this fall I watched “The Social Dilemma”, something that belongs to a category I’d never heard of - a “docudrama.” It is 90 minutes of thought-provoking exploration of social networking, information flow, and bias in our tech-intense world. With talks of elections in both US and Canada, it is cause for pause about how we know what we know. As in all things, balance and reflection are necessary to understand how it might shape the world of a Christian parent trying to raise children to love Jesus and exercise biblical wisdom.

There are more social media platforms than you can shake a stick at. Yet in our connected electronic age, people are living lives that are more separate from each other than they ever have been. People long to feel connected, known, and valued. A pre-Covid American survey in January of 18-22 year olds indicated 79% of them considered themselves lonely. (See this) I highly recommend this short small book for parents with children involved in tech in 2020.

Our school theme “The joy of the Lord gives us strength” (Nehemiah 8:10) urges joy derived outside of oneself. God’s original, pre-sin plan for humanity was fellowship – with him, and between mankind. Life becomes flat and incomplete when either or both of those break down. The Christian family unit and the vision of Christian education that we aim to support at London Christian Elementary hinges on the belief that we can be a blessing and will be blessed when we live and work together – in our case to care for God’s children.

SJ