**A deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections,
rebuilding abundant communities, and living in a way that engages our
full humanity in an age of unprecedented anxiety and loneliness--from
the author of The Tech-Wise Family
**
"Andy Crouch shows the path to reclaiming a life that restores the
heart of what it means to thrive."--Arthur C. Brooks, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of From Strength to Strength
Our greatest need is to be recognized--to be seen, loved, and embedded
in rich relationships with those around us. But for the last century,
we've displaced that need with the ease of technology. We've dreamed of
mastery without relationship (what the premodern world called magic) and
abundance without dependence (what Jesus called Mammon). Yet even before
a pandemic disrupted that quest, we felt threatened and strangely out of
place: lonely, anxious, bored amid endless options, oddly disconnected
amid infinite connections.
In The Life We're Looking For, bestselling author Andy Crouch shows
how we have been seduced by a false vision of human flourishing--and how
each of us can fight back. From the social innovations of the early
Christian movement to the efforts of entrepreneurs working to create
more humane technology, Crouch shows how we can restore true community
and put people first in a world dominated by money, power, and devices.
There is a way out of our impersonal world, into a world where knowing
and being known are the heartbeat of our days, our households, and our
economies. Where our vulnerabilities are seen not as something to be
escaped but as the key to our becoming who we were made to be together.
Where technology serves us rather than masters us--and helps us become
more human, not less.
