Episode 5: We’re Obsessed with Information in a World That Is Desperate for Wisdom

We live in an age of information. Not only are we generating more than ever before, we have unprecedented access to information of all kinds. Our phones have become portals to a world of infinite knowledge. And this brave new world of endless information is busy reshaping our humanity. Why are we so restless? Because we are obsessed with information in a world that is desperate for wisdom.

At the conclusion of John’s talk, co-hosts Center for Public Christianity Executive Director Josh Chatraw and New City Fellows alumnus Micah Vandegrift are joined by Matt Benson, also a New City Fellows alumnus, to reflect on John’s teaching and discuss how it applies to daily life. So, keep listening! 

Additional Resources

From John’s Talks

• A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by Ephraim Radner
• Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene Peterson
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Pensées by Blaise Pascal
• Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News by Jeffrey Bilbro
• The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
• The Power of Place: Choosing Stability in a Rootless Age by Daniel Grothe
• You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News by Kelly M. Kapic
• You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World by Alan Noble
• Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey

From the Discussion

• How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs
• To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter
• https://grayscale.whiteboard.is/

Websites

https://htcraleigh.org/

https://centerforpublicchristianity.org/