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Simon Smart

Simon Smart

Simon Smart is the executive director at Centre for Public Christianity and host of the Life & Faith podcast.

It’s the connected generation, but it’s struggling for connection.

Who’d dare put a dumb phone under the tree for a kid? You should do it for adults, too

All I want for Christmas is connection – genuine, human connection.

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German theologian and pacifist Dietrich Bonhoeffer challenged the Nazi regime in Germany.

When the Nazis hanged a theologian at Easter

Let us remember an Easter in Germany 80 years ago, and the killing of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

  • Simon Smart
An avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.

Forget the metaverse, the Nativity tells us who we really are

Perhaps it’s a kind of dissatisfaction with ordinary lived reality that drives us towards something like the metaverse, but for our human need for bodily connection, the Bible .

  • Simon Smart