Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
or, worse, we will end more sure of ourselves and less sure of God. I am also convinced that culture is sufficiently broken that none of us can simply afford to marinate in privilege, enjoying the fruits of power at a time when Christians have reentered the cultural mainstream and many of us have access to the best that a prosperous society can off
... See moreAndy Crouch • Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
I am one of those worriers. I worry that we have too much cheap and easy access to information in too many forms, that the devices we carry with us in our pockets are designed to fracture our attention, and that in our age (which is, following Postman, fittingly called an age of distraction) thinking is made increasingly difficult.
Jared Henderson • Information overload is nothing new
Nothing draws us away from those questions like material success—when we are always busy, stressed, put upon, distracted, reported to, relied on, apart from.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
It is often only in the interludes that we come to realise just how much our busy lives are an active conspiracy against the very things that supposedly give our existence a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.
David J Siegel • Modern Life Subjects Us to All-Consuming Demands. That’s Why We Should Reflect on What It Means to Step Away From It All
‘The way we live is eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention – the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress,’ Maggie Jackson writes in Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.