Gospel Hope in a Digital Age with Brett McCracken

Journeywomen

Hunter Beless

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s episode with Brett McCracken explores the positives and negatives of technology and the Christian’s spiritual formation. We pray this conversation helps you to think critically about this topic in your own life and points you to the God who is sovereign over all the technology that has ever existed in our world. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FULL SHOW NOTES⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ journeywomen.org/episode/gospel-hope-digital-age DISCUSSION QUESTIONS What does your relationship with technology look like? Is it simply a tool in your life, or has it become something larger? If you are on social media, take a serious look at how you present yourself. Does this “version” of you align with the way you act and treat others in your own home and in your own local church? What is one way you can champion embodied community over virtual community? What are the main vehicles for feeding your soul lately? Evaluate your waking hours. How are you spending them? What is shaping you? What might you do or implement based on what you learned in this week’s episode? FOR MORE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Give⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to Journeywomen Ministries: Journeywomen.org/give Listen on⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Android⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Us:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Leave a rating & review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Interviews do not imply Journeywomen’s endorsement of all writings and positions of the interviewee or any other resources mentioned. On the Journeywomen podcast, we’ll help you know and love God through his Word, find your hope in the gospel, and invest deeply in your local church as you go out on mission for the glory of God.

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0:00.0	Have you ever felt a deep longing for home? Not just a house, but a place where beauty, goodness,
0:07.5	and joy are never touched by sorrow. Our true home, the one for which we're built to long, is heaven.
0:14.3	Out of a season of terminal diagnosis and honest wrestling with questions we all wonder comes
0:19.5	Colleen's new book, On Our Way Home.
0:22.4	In the midst of her suffering, she began asking questions we all wonder, like,
0:26.2	what is heaven really like? What happens the moment I die? Will I see my loved ones again?
0:31.7	How can I hold onto hope when my body is failing? Drawing deeply from scripture and the
0:36.3	testimonies of faithful saints,
0:37.9	Colleen shows how our deepest desires are permanently and increasingly fulfilled in Christ when we
0:42.8	get home. On Our Way Home will not only comfort you, but also lift your eyes and fill your
0:49.0	heart with hope even in the hardest and darkest days. Find On Our Way Home by Colleen Chow, wherever books are sold.
1:03.4	Welcome to the Journey Women Podcast.
1:05.7	Wherever you are on your journey to glorify God, we are so glad you're here.
1:10.2	On the Journey Women podcast, we'll come alongside you in the seasons and challenges of life
1:14.3	to help you know and love God and His Word, find your hope in the gospel, and invest deeply
1:19.0	in your local church as you go out on mission for the glory of God.
1:22.8	Today, my dear friend and comrade, Lauren Bowerman, is sharing a delightful conversation with Brett McCracken
1:29.5	on how we can faithfully navigate this digital age as Christians. If you don't know him,
1:35.0	Brett is the senior editor for the Gospel Coalition. You know, the movie reviews that Brett
1:39.7	contributes to the Gospel Coalition's website are one of Brooks and I's favorite resources for date nights.
1:45.8	And he's also the co-editor of scrolling ourselves to death, reclaiming life in a digital age.
1:52.1	Brett's written several other wonderful books that we'd encourage you guys to check out.
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