Jillian Ferguson

“Because make no mistake: the videos we put on for our kids—or the video games we pull up on our phones in our own moments of boredom—are designed, unconsciously or consciously, to produce a bewitching effect. And that effect is achieved by filling a screen with a level of vividness and velocity that does not exist in the real world—or only very rarely. Because it is rare, we instinctively respond to it, and indeed take delight in it.”
― Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

“As screens—movies, TV, video games—present a world far more colorful and energetic than the created world itself, they not only ratchet up our expectations for what is significant and entertaining; they also undermine our ability to enjoy what we could call the abundance of the ordinary.”
― Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

“We are meant not just for thin, virtual connections but for visceral, real connections to one another in this fleeting, temporary, and infinitely beautiful and worthwhile life.”
― Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

“Jesus’ resurrection released hope, not to cheapen life in this world, but to dignify it. To believe in the resurrection is to place the full weight of my hope in the “story of Jesus.” It is to acknowledge that at the center of the harsh reality of life, there is a supernatural gap that cannot be closed by my natural means.”
― Tyler Staton, Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith