What Is Signal and Noise? The terms come from engineering and communications. The signal is the information you actually want to receive. The noise is everything else that interferes with it: static on a radio, background chatter in a crowded room, a weak cell connection that garbles a phone call. What matters is the signal-to-noise ratio . If the signal is strong and the noise is low, the message comes through clearly. If the noise rises, or the signal weakens, the message gets distorted or lost. Nothing is wrong with the broadcast itself. The problem is on the receiving end. We live in the noisiest period in human history. The average person is flooded daily with notifications, headlines, opinions, advertisements, and endless content. Most of it isn’t evil. Much of it is simply loud, urgent, and competing for the same attention God wants us to give to Him. Signal and Noise in the Spiritual Life In the spiritual life, the signal i...
Tinku Thompson