screens and social media have reshaped the world and our minds bringing an appetite for distraction

loneliness and increased rates of mental health challenges is it time for christians to rethink

their relationship with screens and do consider what it means to live faithfully in our screen

dominated world our guest today author brett mccracken says yes consider what it means to live faithfully in our screen-dominated world.

Our guest today, author Brett McCracken, says yes, and he is the co-editor of a helpful,

insightful, and timely new book called Scrolling Ourselves to Death.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

This is Think Biblically, a podcast brought to you by Talbot School Theology, Biola, University.

Brett, it's always good to have you back on.

Thanks for joining us today.

Yeah, thank you.

Thanks, Sean.

Thanks, Scott.

It's great to be back.

So you state the motivation for this book pretty early in your opening chapter when you say, quote, in many ways, the smartphone is literally killing us.

What do you mean by that? And how does that play into the vision for this book?

Yeah, I mean, it's it's killing us on a number of levels. So, you know, one is like literally killing us. So you could, you could look at like

distracted driving as an example of that where the numbers of people killed every year from

literally scrolling or looking at their phone while they're driving or, you know, the person

taking a selfie at the Grand Canyon and like dies, you know, death by selfie.

Yeah.

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