This new book helps Christians and church leaders think carefully about the spiritual hazards—and opportunities—of contemporary digital life.
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Last year felt like a turning point in the rising awareness of the detrimental effects of excessive scrolling. Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation released in March and quickly became a bestseller. The book presents an array of empirical data so convincing that it catalyzed countless school districts, states, and even nations to institute new limits and age restrictions on smartphone and social media use for kids. Consensus is growing that the addictive scrolling habits of our digital age are bad for us: mentally bad, spiritually bad, societally bad, and sometimes even deadly.
We’rebothlongtimeeditorsatTheGospelCoalition,workingdailyonscreensandintheecosystemsofsocialmediaandonlinediscourse.Weknowthesetechnologiescanbeharnessedinpowerfullygoodwaysfordiscipleshipandgospeladvance.Butwe’realsokeenlyawareofthemalformativedynamicsofthesetechnologiesandthemanychallengestheyposeforChristianstoday.Weseeupclosehowscrollingcanhelpleadtospiritu
