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We want to ask an honest question: Are you the master of your screen, or is your screen the master of you? Nobody doubts the pervasiveness of screens in our culture today, especially among kids and teens. But when was the last time you stopped and truly asked yourself, “What, about my screen, do I accept without question?”
Don’t misunderstand us, we don’t believe screens are all bad. We just want to be honest with ourselves. And after listening to our conversation in this episode, we hope you’ll do the same. Because as research is showing, the subtle lies we have come to believe about our screens may be changing us in ways we never expected.
Show Notes:
The Death of Reading is Threatening the Soul by Phillip Yancey
Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation by Dr. Jean Twenge
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr
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Hi Dr. Josh and Christi, I love your podcast so much. I have found such good insights on marriage and parenting. My only aspect that I feel unrepeatable to with your podcast is the lack of spiritual journey diversity of the guests of your podcast. Each couple is an amazing couple and state that they loved Jesus before they got married and put Jesus at the center of their marriage. All great things, however, that doesn’t always resonate to the reality of many other couples. Many other couples didn’t necessarily start that way and have battled pain and brokenness through the years to come to that point of putting Jesus at the center of their marriage. I strongly believe that reaching a broader range of people who can relate to your podcast comes with having those on who haven’t always loved Jesus, or who weren’t high school sweethearts, who have a storied past and even a turbulent marriage not having always loved Jesus. Where are those couples? Couples who aren’t writing books or have podcasts to promote that need to hear something that speaks directly to their heart from a broken or formerly broken place of not having loved Jesus. Again, I really love your podcast and much of it I connect to, it’s just I don’t connect to the story of many of the couples who have seemed to live this enviable life of having loved Jesus before they loved their spouse and that’s what helped them through tough times together. I come from this place, my husband and I. We were saved before we married but we did not put Him at the center of our marriage from the start necessarily, and it almost broke us, a lot due to pains of our past before we even met. And, I feel this is missing from how to see a marriage from that angle as well as how to navigate OUR past pains/brokenness without projecting it onto our children in parenting. Just some thoughts, opening my heart about, as I do love the podcast, just feel a missing connection in some ways. Thanks.
Tara, your comment is so timely and appreciated! First, thank you so much for your encouraging words and your support. We are grateful. Secondly, I have been chewing on this comment all day–in a good way! You are right. We need this. And because of your comment, we are going to work on making that happen. Stay tuned. My hope is that by season 3, you’ll see these families, marriages, and spiritual diversity represented. If you have any other questions, comments, or suggestions, please never hesitate to let us know. At the risk of sounding cheesy, we are really in this together! Thank you! Josh
Josh,
Thank you so much for responding. I truly do appreciate the podcasts and get much direction from you and your guests. I can’t wait to hear more each week. I also appreciate your and Christi’s openness to my comment, I don’t want to sound like I haven’t enjoyed it all so far Bc I have! Our marriage/family story doesn’t look the same as the next or the next, but it is reality to us and our journey hasn’t always been easy but we have done the most important thing we could do…we stayed. We persevered. And we continue to be molded, and we thank God every day even on the hard days, but that’s not always easy. So I just want to say thank you and I look forward to each week. Thanks!
I just discovered your podcasts and I can tell i will be listening regularly now. So much truth in this, sadly, it’s not just kids that are misusing their phones. Look around at any restaurant and you will see whole families ignoring each other in favor of their phones. My husband and I have a regular Saturday morning coffee date at a bakery. Parents come in with little kids for some “special time”, buy their food and then proceed to completely ignore their kids as they become mesmerized by their phones. So sad to think of the lost relationships.
Kathleen, thanks for listening. We’re grateful for the privilege to journey with you and your family. You are right about the adults. We actually have an e-nup in our marriage 🙂 An electronic nuptial agreement. One of the podcast episodes we did last year was about addressing the elephant (uh um, the iPhone) in our marriage. I couldn’t agree more, so go the parents, so go the kids.