The Local Youth Worker Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
In this episode, Andy Crouch talks about what it means to be truly human in an age of technology overload through smartphones and social media. He gives practical wisdom on thinking Christianly in this digital age and how we can use our devices in a way that makes us whole.
Andy Crouch
Bio:
Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch): The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling.
Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae's 2014 single "Non-Fiction."
From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
#441 - RYM Worship's Newest Single: Grace Alone
#440 - Parental Surveillance
#439 - Insecurities: Comparison in Youth Ministry
#438 - Politics, Rest & Reformed Theology
#437 - Talking with Kids & Students About Pornography
#436 - What We're Reading, Watching, Learning
#435 - Rest, Margin, Sabbath & Shalom
#434 - 11 Ways to Tame Your Technology
#433 - The Difficulties & Joys of Leadership in the Church
#432 - Christian Minimalism, Productivity, Creativity, & Rest (Reagan Rose)
#431 - Super Bowl, Snapchat, Deadpool, Taylor Swift & More!
#430 - Kids Online Safety Act
#428 - Brian Montgomery update
#427 - Ministry Tools, New Resources & Future Guests
#426 - More to the Story (Jennifer Kvamme)
#425 - Devotional Tools & Encouragement (Dr. David Murray)
#424 - RYM: Looking Back & Looking Ahead (Les & Brent)
#423 - We’re Becoming Like Our Technology (Andrew Noble)
#422 - Meta Knows It’s Harming Teens and Doesn’t Seem to Care (Chris Martin)
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