We're in an epistemological crisis is basically saying we're in a crisis of knowing what to trust and whether we can know anything for sure.

And it's not a new thing. I mean, I think the last, I don't know, a century or so has been this steady trajectory of eroding our

trust in truth.

Welcome to the Crossway podcast, a show where we sit down with authors each week for thoughtful

interviews about the Bible,

theology, church history, and the Christian life.

I'm Matt Tully, and today I'm talking with Brett McCracken.

Brett serves as a senior editor for the Gospel Coalition and as an elder at Southlands Church

in Southern California.

He's also the author of The Wisdom Pyramid, Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth world from Crossway.

Today, Brett and I discuss what it looks like to pursue true wisdom in a noisy and confused age.

He highlights the dangers of living in a constantly connected, information-saturated world,

explains why the local church, good books, and even nature are

crucial for our spiritual health, and makes a critical, yet often overlooked distinction

between gaining knowledge versus pursuing wisdom. Let's get started.

Well, Brett, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast. Thanks so much, Matt, for having me.

So in the opening pages of your new book, you have this great line. You write, we live at an age when, quote, everyone has a megaphone, but no one has a filter. And I think we can all think back over the last 12 months or so.

And that line, I just think, is the perfect descriptor of 2020,

what this year gone by has been.

So I wonder, could you speak a little bit to that?

What's been your experience of that dynamic over the last 12 months? Yeah, I mean, could you speak a little bit to that? What's been your experience of that dynamic

over the last 12 months? Yeah, I mean, man, it's a dynamic that was there before 2020, of course,

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