In this engaging discussion, Jay Kim, a Bay Area pastor and the author of 'Analog Christian', shares his insights on the mental and spiritual toll of being constantly online. He emphasizes that technology shapes our identities, often turning us into distracted and image-obsessed individuals. Jay advocates for establishing boundaries, such as a digital Sabbath, to reclaim our attention and foster genuine connections. He also explores the paradox of technology's allure versus the importance of embracing boredom for deeper creativity and relationships.
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Technology’s Mental Health Toll
Smartphones and social media have contributed to a widespread mental health crisis.
Our attention is sold as a commodity, making us products rather than customers online.
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Users Are The Product Online
Social media apps are free because users are the product being sold.
Our attention drives an attention economy that exploits our focus and engagement.
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Digital Life vs. Fruit of Spirit
Social media fosters feelings like self-centric despair, comparison, and contempt.
These contrast directly with the fruit of the Spirit, which nurture contentment, resilience, and wisdom.
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Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age
Dan Kimball
Jay Kim
In *Analog Christian*, Jay Y. Kim explores how the digital age affects Christian discipleship. He argues that the digital age inclines us towards discontentment, fragility, and foolishness, and provides a theological basis for living in creative resistance to these forces. The book is organized around the fruits of the Spirit, showing how each fruit helps heal from the toxic mindsets and behaviors cultivated by the digital world. Kim offers practical advice and real-world examples on how Christians can cultivate contentment, resilience, and wisdom to thrive in the current digital landscape.
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
In 'The Anxious Generation', Jonathan Haidt examines the sudden decline in the mental health of adolescents starting in the early 2010s. He attributes this decline to the shift from a 'play-based childhood' to a 'phone-based childhood', highlighting mechanisms such as sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, and perfectionism that interfere with children’s social and neurological development. Haidt proposes four simple rules to address this issue: no smartphones before high school, no social media before age 16, phone-free schools, and more opportunities for independence, free play, and responsibility. The book offers a clear call to action for parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments to restore a more humane childhood and end the epidemic of mental illness among youth.
My Tech-Wise Life
Amy Crouch
Andy Crouch
Jay shares his personal experience, as well as his pastoral perspective, on the mental, emotional, and spiritual costs of being chronically online. The issue is not the existence of technology, but how subtly and deeply it forms us into distracted, image-obsessed and ultimately hopeless people. The point of the conversation is to remind us that our digital tools are using us often more than we are using them. Our attention is being bought and sold, and the cost is our contentment, resilience, and joy.
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