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The Life We’re Looking For Audiobook Summary

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.

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Narrator Andy Crouch
Length 5 hours 55 minutes
Author Andy Crouch
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 30, 2024
ISBN 9780593395868

Subjects

The publisher of the The Life We’re Looking For is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: Christian gift, mental health books, isolation, loneliness, ancient history, christian books for women, hope, self care, purpose, spirituality books, christian gifts for women, christian gifts for men, christian gifts, social media, healing, faith, roman empire, Rome, anxiety, mental health, Christian books, spiritual gifts, inspirational books, inspirational gifts, Christian, self help books, self help, Christianity, spiritual books, spirituality, religious books, religion, history books, history, relationship, christian, Religion, Christian Life, Social Issues, Psychology, Interpersonal Relations The BISAC Subject Code is Christian Life, Religion, Social Issues

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The publisher of the The Life We’re Looking For is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593395868.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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