How Are Smartphones Exacerbating Our Longing for Expressive Individualism? @CrosswayBooks
How Are Smartphones Exacerbating Our Longing for Expressive Individualism?  @CrosswayBooks
Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this video, Brett McCracken discusses how smartphones are exacerbating our longing for expressive individualism.

Brett McCracken is a senior editor for the Gospel Coalition and the author of The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World, Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community, and 'Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age'. On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman’s prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today’s most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman’s insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, readers will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a “scrolling ourselves to death” world.

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