This timely book releases this month:

Tony Reinke. 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017.

Here are the “12 ways” (which are the 12 chapter titles):

1. We Are Addicted to Distraction
2. We Ignore Our Flesh and Blood
3. We Crave Immediate Approval
4. We Lose Our Literacy
5. We Feed on the Produced
6. We Become Like What We “Like”
7. We Get Lonely
8. We Get Comfortable in Secret Vices
9. We Lose Meaning
10. We Fear Missing Out
11. We Become Harsh to One Another
12. We Lose Our Place in Time

Here’s a creative 100-second video to promote the book:

Tony’s work is penetrating and convicting. I read a draft of his book in August 2016, and it served me well as I wrote an unpublished essay (7,750 words) on why and how I use social media. (I may update that in the future for publication somewhere. No plans yet.)

If you follow Tony’s blog and his articles and interviews for Desiring God, then you know that he has been thinking about technology and the Christian for a long time. His book expands, for example, on his 2015 article “Six Wrong Reasons to Check Your Phone in the Morning: And a Better Way Forward.”

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