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Ezra Iskandar
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Formed by Algorithms: New Tasks of Christian Educators Ezra Iskandar
Aletheia Christian Educators Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2025): OKTOBER 2025
Publisher : Universitas Kristen Petra

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.9744/aletheia.6.2.131-136

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Social media—TikTok, Instagram, Facebook—has become one of the most powerful formative forces among students today. It shapes not only how they communicate but also how they think, feel, and believe. What began as a tool for expression has become a system of formation that directs attention, defines identity, and distorts desire. Unfortunately, many educators fail to recognize this hidden force. Perhaps they are victims of the same habits, or they hold an uncritical optimism toward technology, or they assume that students will eventually outgrow its algorithm. In this paper I argue that Christian educators must recover a theological vision of technology grounded in the story of creation, fall, and redemption. Technology, like social media, is not neutral but spiritually formative, shaping the soul toward either worship or idolatry. The paper concludes by outlining practical implications for educators who seek to cultivate wisdom, discernment, and faithful presence in a digital age.
Between Diversity and Disorder Trans Identities Reconsidered Ezra Iskandar; Samuel Soegiarto
Proceedings of The International Conference on Theology, Religion, Culture, and Humanities Vol 1, No 2 (2024): Proceedings of The International Conference on Theology, Religion, Culture, and
Publisher : Fakultas Teologi, Universitas Sanata Dharma

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/tic.v1i2.8994

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Transgender communities perceive Christians as oppressive, intolerant, and obsolete, especially when the latter condemns them. Transgender, loosely defined, is a person who feels that [her] gender identity does not conform to [her] sex assigned at birth. This experience can also be called gender identity disorder (GID). Few transgenders decide to go as far as undergoing sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. This paper seeks to explore the concepts of transgender identity by offering comparison to the concepts of transability. Transability, loosely defined, is a person who feels that her disabled identity does not conform to her able-physical body. This can also be called Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). A transabled person, for example, feels that she is a limp—having limp identity—despite having normally healthy legs. Few transabled individuals decide to go as far as undergoing amputation. This paper, incorporating theological perspective on the sanctity of human body and philosophical considerations of bodily integrity, invites us to come up with a consistent ethical stance that either acknowledges both (GID and BIID) as expressions of diversity or rejects both (GID and BIID) as forms of disorder.
Co-Authors Samuel Soegiarto