TechWise Family, Andy Crouch
TechWise Family, Andy Crouch
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Tech-Wise Family
Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

Author: Andy Crouch

Narrator: Andy Crouch

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2017

Synopsis

Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. It's about developing wisdom, character, and courage in the way we use digital media rather than accepting technology's promises of ease, instant gratification, and the world's knowledge at our fingertips. And it's definitely not just about the kids. Drawing on in-depth original research from the Barna Group, Andy Crouch shows readers that the choices we make about technology have consequences we may never have considered. He takes readers beyond the typical questions of what, where, and when and instead challenges them to answer provocative questions like, Who do we want to be as a family? and How does our use of a particular technology move us closer or farther away from that goal? Anyone who has felt their family relationships suffer or their time slip away amid technology's distractions will find in this book a path forward to reclaiming their real life in a world of devices.

About Andy Crouch

Andy Crouch is editorial director for The Christian Vision Project at Christianity Today International and executive producer of Where Faith and Culture Meet, a series of short documentary films on Christians creating "a counterculture for the common good." He is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, and a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission's IJM Institute. His writing has appeared in several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kayla on April 15, 2018

A friend gifted this book to my husband after we had a baby (she’s ten months old now, so it’s taken me a long time to get through) because we realized we are facing a huge dilemma in raising this kid that our parents didn’t face when raising us: how do you navigate the inescapable presence of techn......more

Goodreads review by Mark on June 14, 2017

Andy Crouch is among the first parents to have nurtured children from clearly-too-young-to-have-a-smartphone to now-old-enough, during a time in which smartphones were in fact available for that whole period. It's only been ten years since the iPhone's debut. And in that time Crouch's eldest child w......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on September 15, 2019

This book is an interesting conglomeration of a couple good rules, very biased, somewhat arrogant opinions, very little Scripture, and some research that is true to the topic but not extremely helpful. After reading 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke, this fell short of the helpfulnes......more

Goodreads review by Jillian on January 09, 2020

I don’t know what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn’t this! So pleasantly surprised by how moving this book was. It was not a list of rules, but rather a manifesto on getting back to who God created us to be. The chapters on singing, making nudges away from consumption and towards creativity,......more

Goodreads review by Jorrit on July 11, 2024

Technologie. De opkomst en allesovernemende kracht ervan is een zorg. Niet alleen voor mezelf, maar ook voor ons gezin. Zo kwam ik bij dit boek uit. ‘We are meant not just for thin, virtual connections but for visceral, real connections to one another in this fleeting, temporary, and infinitely beaut......more

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