Scrolling Ourselves to Death is an important book by Brett McCracken about an increasingly important problem: how smartphones, social media, and our always-connected digital lives are shaping the way we think, live, worship, and relate to one another. Published in 2025 to mark the fortieth anniversary of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death , the book brings together McCracken, Ivan Mesa, and a number of other contributors to apply Postman’s insights to the smartphone and social-media age. It is important to understand what this book is—and what it isn’t. This is a collection of essays rather than a single, sustained argument from beginning to end. That format is both one of its strengths and one of its weaknesses. The contributors approach the problem from different directions, addressing subjects such as dopamine-driven media, smartphones, post-truth culture, Christian communication, digital distraction, embodied community, and the difference between digital spectatorship and t...