SCROLLING OURSELVES TO DEATH:
Reclaiming Life In A Digital Age
Editors Brett McCracken & Ivan Mesa
Crossway. 256 pages. £13.99
ISBN 978 1 433 599 446
If you are interested in becoming a stronger Christian, and you also engage daily with modern technology (surely that’s most of us?), then Scrolling Ourselves to Death, a series of mini-essays about the church and digital technology, will be a vital read.
Taking its cue from Neil Postman’s well-known (but not Christian) 1985 thesis Amusing Ourselves to Death, about the perils of a TV-saturated culture, Scrolling Ourselves To Death extends Postman’s arguments to the Christian church of the 2020s. Some of the contributors actually studied under Postman at university, making the purpose of this book more obvious and personal.
Technoference: How screens are shaping our youth
Young parents seem to be constantly under attack by the media for their parenting failures, and it’s easy to see …