It's easy to think we shouldn't listen to our customers because they don't know, if we ask them, exactly what they want from what we are designing. But that's not the point of talking to customers, doing usability studies, etc. – the point is to learn from them, investigate from there, and be designers!
This series is examining the factors of traditional Christianity that lead it to promote Empire, and show how these factors came about and have been used, and how we can move forward. I think this is an incredibly important series, as we can't ignore these things.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.