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/