On Friday, June 11th, we were pleased to welcome author and cultural analyst, Andy Crouch, and his daughter, Amy Crouch, to discuss their book entitled My Tech-Wise Life: Growing Up and Making Choices in a World of Devices. In it they explore how to navigate the possibilities and pitfalls of technology and its influence in one’s life. Andy and Amy believe there is a wise path we can walk with our technology, a different and better way to imagine our lives together. We hope you enjoy this conversation.

Learn more about Andy Crouch and Amy Crouch.

Watch the full Online Conversation and read the transcript from June 11, 2021.

Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

Annie Dillard

My Tech-Wise Life: Growing Up and Making Choices in a World of Devices

Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling

Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing 

The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

Marshal McLuhan

Neil Postman

Albert Borgman

Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam

Augustine of Hippo

James K.A. Smith

Related Trinity Forum Readings:

Brave New World, a Trinity Forum Reading by Aldous Huxley

The Confessions of St. Augustine, a Trinity Forum Reading

On Happiness, a Trinity Forum Reading by Thomas Aquinas, introduced by Fr. Dominic Legge 

Related conversations:

Online Conversation with Andy Crouch on “Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power” in 2013.

Online Conversation with Andy Crouch on his book “Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing”  in 2016. 

Special thanks to Ned Bustard for the artwork and Andrew Peterson for the music.