On May 1, 2012, Paul Miller disconnected from the internet for one year. It was a social experiment. For me it wasn’t necessarily extraordinary. I know plenty of people who are not on the internet.
What was interesting to me was finding out ever so subtly that Paul is a Christian. My first hint to it was no curse words in the video. This in itself is extraordinary. Everyone these days seem to find it important to drop a few curse words within the latest meme video, making it to where it cannot be shared to my friends and family. It didn’t happen.
In the above video Paul mentioned Grace Chapel in Springfield, Missouri. I halfway expected him to make mention how he changed his views on God, but that didn’t happen either. Instead we see subtle reminders of Paul’s faith such as an ESV Bible on his bookshelf.
Within Paul’s twitter account Paul is pretty explicit about his faith stating “I love my savior Jesus Christ.”
I found the idea that a tech writer could also love Jesus to be more interesting that disconnecting from the internet for a year.