Faithful Living in a Tech-Driven World | Katie Westenberg | Episode 260

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Author, wife and mom Katie Westenberg joins Blake to discuss the challenge of living in a distracted world, where social media, technology, and other distractions prevent people from fully engaging with their day-to-day lives and faith. In her book, she talks about her personal journey surrounding this topic and emphasizes the importance of aligning one's thoughts with truth and obedience to God. Katie encourages listeners to call out distractions and replace them with beneficial habits, like taking breaks from social media or reading books. Listen in as they highlight the need to be intentional about what one pays attention to and the challenges of battling against addictive technologies designed to keep users engaged.

In this episode, you’ll be able to:

Learn about the challenges of living in a distracted world dominated by social media and technology.
Discover practical strategies to call out and manage distractions, aligning thoughts with truth and obedience to God.
Gain insights into the addictive nature of technology and the importance of being intentional about what they pay attention to.

Katie is the author of But Then She Remembered – available everywhere now!

To connect with Katie:

Website: katiewestenberg.com

Instagram: @katie_westenberg

Facebook: @katiewestenbergauthor

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian, a misfit media network
0:11.4	production.
0:12.6	I am your host and resident Crappy Christian Blake, and every week I get to have the coolest
0:17.8	conversations with incredible people about all the things most Christians are still not
0:22.7	sure we're allowed to talk about.
0:24.5	So if you've been looking for a place to land with all your crap, and for someone to
0:28.4	just be honest about what it looks like to walk through this Christian life, or you've
0:32.7	come to the right place, pull up a seat, pop in your headphones, and tune out your kids,
0:37.6	and come hang out with me and a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been
0:41.7	looking for.
0:43.0	Hey Katie, welcome to Confessions of a Crappy Christian.
0:51.7	Hey, thanks for having me.
0:53.6	This is a really intriguing conversation.
0:56.1	When I've actually chatted for a solid five minutes before we started recording, I think
1:00.3	it's something we're both kind of passionate about.
1:02.7	This idea of living a distracted life, be it social media, be it the actual media, your
1:10.8	phone, or just being distracted from your day-to-day things that are in front of you, and
1:17.0	say you wrote a book.
1:18.3	That's always so exciting when people are writing books about the things that like me personally
1:22.5	I'm walking through, I'm like, yes, give me a book about it.
1:26.7	But then she remembered how to give God your full attention in a distracted world, tell
1:32.2	us about it.
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