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Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

How To RECLAIM Life In a World That's Scrolling Itself To Death | Ep. 236

Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

TBN

Tv & Film, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Brett McCracken joins Kirk Cameron to examine the effects of social media addiction and the truth about targeted algorithmic marketing. How can Christians keep the focus on what really matters? Don't miss this insightful interview on Takeaways with Kirk Cameron on TBN! Missed the last episode? Listen in Grant Skeldon discusses how we can better disciple the upcoming generations! WATCH Takeaways with Kirk Cameron episodes for free on TBN+⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Each episode of Takeaways with Kirk Cameron features knowledgeable guests having a respectful and thoughtful conversation surrounding topics that are impacting our society every day. Kirk’s hope is that you will walk away from this show with practical steps on how to better your family, your community, and your nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3

Less and less of life will be lived in an embodied way.

0:34.4

But I think that's bad because that is subhuman. That's not the way we were created.

0:39.2

The gathering in physical being is God's design for the church.

0:51.2

Brett McCracken is an author and senior editor at the Gospel Coalition.

0:55.8

He's the co-editor of a new book called Scrolling Ourselves to Death,

1:00.8

reclaiming life in a digital age.

1:02.9

And he's the author of several other books, including The Wisdom Pyramid,

1:07.4

Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth world.

1:10.2

Brett, thanks so much for coming on

1:11.3

takeaways. Yeah. Thanks for having me, Kurt. I'm fascinated by this because my son and I were just

1:18.1

talking about the documentary, the social dilemma, and how our brains are being impacted by music

1:26.2

and scrolling images and so much information all

1:30.1

of the time that together we turned the color filter on our phone to black and white and then I

1:37.0

sort of turned my smartphone into a dumb phone with this accessibility feature that limits all of

1:42.5

its features and I found myself much less interested in my phone because it's just not so cool anymore.

1:47.4

Yeah.

1:47.8

And it's actually been improving my mental state.

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