12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

by Tony Reinke Narrated by Tom Parks

Overview

When the smartphone was introduced, many of us quickly adopted it into our lives-too quickly to stop and think about the future costs we were unboxing along with the device. Now blessed with this revolutionary piece of handheld technology, we try to wield it with wisdom, fending off anxieties about how our digital habits impact our spiritual health. Drawing on the insights of numerous thinkers, published studies, and his own research, writer Tony Reinke identifies twelve potent ways our smartphones have changed our lives-for good and ill. Reinke calls us to cultivate healthy habits for smartphone use in the digital age, encouraging us to be grateful for technological advance, develop skills aimed at maximizing the blessing that we (and others) can receive through our phones, and grow in the wisdom we need to avoid the many pitfalls that exist with such a powerful tool.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

04/10/2017
Reinke (Newton on the Christian Life), staff writer and researcher for desiringgod.org, presents an informative primer on the effects of technology on Christian smartphone users. Reinke offers Christian readers 12 dynamic chapters specifically laying out the ways smartphones change people from the inside out. The author contends that if you own a smartphone, it is highly likely that you have abused it, as smartphone users check in online an average of once every 4.3 minutes. Reinke uses his apt research skills to point out the problematic issues of idolatrous smart phone usage and then guides readers to think critically about their own habits of engaging others. He recalls a time when he was immersed in something on his own smartphone when he should have been engaging his family and itemizes the problems that began with that moment of distraction. The author delves into such topics as addiction to distraction, craving immediate approval, losing literacy, becoming what one “likes,” feeling lonely, and being harsh with one another. Reinke’s work is smart, efficient, and effective, laying out the insidious problems that pocket computers can bring into everyday life. (May)

JULY 2017 - AudioFile

Tom Parks narrates one of the more thought-provoking books on cell phone usage with a flair that keeps the listener wanting to hear more. With the smartphone now so ubiquitous in our lives, we need to pause for a moment to consider how we ought to respond generally as users and specifically as Christians who use smartphones. Parks offers great pacing and vocal inflection as he transitions seamlessly from research to scripture to the author’s own theological musings on cell phones. Though an easy listen, the content will more than likely challenge the way Christians view and use their phones. T.D. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172355882
Publisher:	EChristian, Inc.
Publication date:	04/30/2017
Edition description:	Unabridged

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