Untrustworthy, Bonnie Kristian
Untrustworthy, Bonnie Kristian
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Untrustworthy
The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community

Author: Bonnie Kristian, David French

Narrator: Susan Hanfield

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2022


Synopsis

Which media outlets will help me be a responsible news consumer? How do I know what is true and whom I can trust? What can I do to combat all the misinformation and how it's impacting people I love?

Many Americans are agonizing over questions such as these, feeling unsure and overwhelmed in today's chaotic information environment.

American life and politics are suffering from a raging knowledge crisis, and the church is no exception. In Untrustworthy, Bonnie Kristian unpacks this crisis and explores ways to combat it in our own lives, families, and church communities.

Drawing from her extensive experience in journalism and her training as a theologian, Kristian explores social media, political and digital culture, online paranoia, and the press itself. She explains factors that contribute to our confusion and helps Christians pay attention to how we consume content and think about truth. Finally, she provides specific ways to take action, empowering listeners to avoid succumbing to or fueling the knowledge crisis.

About Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian is a seasoned journalist who writes on foreign policy, religion, criminal justice, urbanism, civil liberties, electoral politics, and more. Her column, "The Lesser Kingdom," appears in print and online at Christianity Today, and she is the author of A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today. Her work has also been featured in other outlets, including The Week, USA Today, CNN, Politico, and Time. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband and twin sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Traci on May 28, 2023

Kristian is knowledgeable in this, and many topics. It would make a great book club selection, as it explores the why behind where we are politically, and largely overall as a society.......more

Goodreads review by Joe on October 25, 2022

In Untrustworthy, journalist Bonnie Kristian attempts to answer one of the most pressing questions of modern evangelicalism: Why are Evangelical Christians so easily manipulated by politicians and news outlets peddling fear, misinformation, and conspiracies? According to Kristian, America is in the......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on November 23, 2022

Bonnie Kristian wrote the book I've been wanting to read for 4 years. She sets out to write about a project that she is uniquely qualified to write about by virtue of her training, expertise, and Christian faith and practice. She not only accurately describes the epistemic crisis we have lived throu......more

Goodreads review by Cappy on November 12, 2022

There are some broad insights in this book that are worth holding onto: the importance of humility, the acceptance of some degree of uncertainty, the need to hold doors at least slightly ajar for reconciliation. But the off-hand need to rope the American Left into the problem and the strange biblical......more

Goodreads review by Zak on December 06, 2022

I had mixed feelings about this book. Overall, it speaks to a lot of themes that I appreciate, and she says a lot of things that are going to make a lot of readers unhappy. I appreciate that spirit, especially when so many people are afraid to say what they mean. For many of us, it is easy to get wr......more