Enchanting the Machine: Liturgy, Technology, & Wonder

Join host Johnny Burtka with Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, Peter Leithart, Hans Boersma, and Zachary Porcu for a deep conversation about re-enchantment in our technological age. This roundtable explores the revival of liturgical Christianity, the spiritual dimensions of technology, and what it means to live in an enchanted world.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - What is enchantment?
7:22 - Tolkien, WWI, and "death and the machine"
23:33 - How did materialism become dominant?
36:14 - Constantine and converting pagan culture
51:37 - Technology as spiritual warfare
1:11:00 - Asceticism and spiritual formation
1:25:25 - The Incarnation and cosmic transformation
1:29:27 - What do we do? Practical steps forward

Featured Topics: Tolkien, liturgy, sacramental ontology, the Reformation, technology and Babel, saints' lives, the Jesus prayer, AI and attention, neo-paganism

Recorded live at ISI's Christmas Open House on December 15, 2025, at Butterworth's in Washington, DC.

A production of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute | isi.org

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