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Brett’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Brett’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Brett McCracken
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April 2012
New Book! ‘Scrolling Ourselves to Death’
My new book project is now available: Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age.
Published in partnership with TGC and Crossway, the book is an edited volume (co-edited by Ivan Mesa and myself) which marks the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman’s 1985 classic, Amusing Ourselves to Death by applying Postman’s thinking about media/technology to the digital age.
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| Incredibly helpful book for American Christians. One of the best, most accessible, and practical resources I’ve read on the topic of contemporary Christian engagement with (highly partisan, very broken) politics. | |
“In the competitive landscape of the digital age, the “food” of information is not getting more nutritious; it’s veering in the direction of junk food. Doritos and Skittles will always get more clicks than spinach. And so we walk down the buffet line of social media snacks and online junk food, daily gorging ourselves to the point of gluttony. Unsurprisingly, it is making us sick.”
― The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World
― The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World
“Social media is a frequent “unwinding” activity for many. Yet it’s not actually that restful. Social media’s passivity is different from leisure, which has a tendency to refresh us by helping us to stop focusing so much on ourselves and our own mental state and instead pay attention to something pleasant outside us. This partially explains why an hour of scrolling Instagram or Facebook feels oddly tiring. What keeps us locked in for that amount of time is often aimlessness.”
― Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age
― Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age
“The consensus seems to be this: we should be deeply Christian artists. But that doesn't mean we should be something called Christian artists or that whatever we produce should be called Christian art. We should simply focus on our craft, on making the best art we can. We should understand that people will and should resonate with our work not because it is Christian but because it is good. Above all, Christians should make good art, true art; art unafraid of exploring mystery, portraying evil, and looking for truth wherever it appears.”
― Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide
― Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide
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