Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture Scrolling Ourselves to Death (with Brett McCracken)
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Jul 29, 2025 Brett McCracken, Senior editor at The Gospel Coalition and co-editor of 'Scrolling Ourselves to Death', dives into the digital landscape's impact on our lives. He discusses how screens foster loneliness and mental health issues, urging a reevaluation of our screen habits from a Christian perspective. The conversation explores the spiritual stagnation linked to excessive screen time and the importance of embodied relationships in a digital age. McCracken also shares strategies for finding balance amidst information overload and encourages embracing local experiences for mental well-being.
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Smartphones' Triple Threat
- Smartphones kill us in multiple ways: physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
- The spiritual death comes from addiction to screens, which crowd out time for communion with God.
Postman's Enduring Relevance
- Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" remains profoundly relevant despite focusing on television.
- His method models how technology changes media and our thinking, applicable now to digital screens.
Social Media on Steroids
- Social media amplifies television's problematic blend of serious and trivial content to a chaotic extreme.
- The blend of real and fake information on platforms like TikTok complicates our cognition.
