Filters

EVENTS

03.23.26

Take Up the Tale: Bringing the Epic Tradition Into Our Time, with Malcolm Guite

Join us in Washington, DC on March 23, 2026 for an Evening Conversation with Malcolm Guite.
Learn More
03.31.26

Tolkien, Lewis, and the Gathering Storm, with Joseph Loconte in Nashville, TN

Join us in Nashville, TN on March 31, 2026 for an Evening Conversation with Joseph Loconte on the extraordinary lives of Tolkien and Lewis, and…
Learn More

Trinity Forum Membership

Join or Renew Your Trinity Forum Membership

GIVE

Give a One-Time Gift or Explore Planned Giving

The President’s Circle

Become a Leading Supporter of the Trinity Forum

Sponsorships

Sponsor a Conversation, Podcast, or Reading

Episode 111

Our Souls on Technology with Andy Crouch and Jonathan Haidt


To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcasts and to help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society.

Our Souls on Technology

We were made for relationship — to be seen, loved, known, and committed to others. And yet we increasingly find ourselves, in the words of sociologist Jonathan Haidt, “disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.”

 

On our podcast Haidt and bestselling author Andy Crouch pair up to explore how the technology era has seduced us with a false vision of human flourishing—and how each of us can fight back, and restore true community:

“A person is a heart, soul, mind, strength, complex designed for love. And one of the really damaging things about our technology is very little of our technology develops all four of those qualities.” – Andy Crouch

 

We hope you enjoy this conversation about the seismic effects technology has had on our personal relationships, civic institutions, and even democratic foundations — and how we might approach rethinking our technologies and reclaiming human connection.

 

This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2022. Watch the full video of the conversation here. Learn more about Jonathan Haidt and Andy Crouch.

 

Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt
Culture Making, by Andy Crouch
Playing God, by Andy Crouch
Strong and Weak, by Andy Crouch
The TechWise Family, by Andy Crouch
My TechWise Life, by Amy and Andy Crouch
Ernest Hemingway
Francis Bacon
Howard Hotson
Greg Lukianoff
Wolfram Schultz
The Sacred Canopy, by Peter L. Berger
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
 
Related Trinity Forum Readings:
Brave New World, by Alduous Huxley
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
City of God, by St. Augustine of Hippo
On Happiness, by Thomas Aquinas
 

Related Conversations:

 

To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society.

 

More Podcasts