Hope for an Anxious Age: Andy Crouch on Relationships, Technology, and Flourishing
Anxious. Stressed. Busy. “Connected.” Lonely.
Is there a relationship between technology and the high levels of anxiety that characterize our culture today? Andy Crouch is a noted thinker and writer whose work addresses this and related questions. He has written extensively about the effects of technology on human relationships and is gifted at considering how Christians can live well in the modern world. Come join us as Andy helps us consider whether there is a clear path to health and human flourishing, and whether it is available to us today.
Event Details
Date: January 16th, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: Carolina Union Auditorium
Format: Lecture followed by Q&A
Space is limited, so RSVP below!
Speaker Bio
Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch): The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling.
Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae's 2014 single "Non-Fiction."
From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
