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"The only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. In this expanded edition of his award-winning book he unpacks how culture works and gives us tools to partner with God's own making and transforming of culture"--

"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. 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"--

The proper place -- Help! -- Tech-wise commitments -- The three key decisions of a tech-wise family -- Choosing character -- Shaping space -- Structuring time -- Daily life -- Waking and sleeping -- Learning and working -- The good news about boredom -- The deep end of the (car) pool -- Naked and unashamed -- What matters most -- Why singing matters -- In sickness and in health

The discovery of power -- The gift of power: in the beginning it was not so. Power is a gift -- Idolatry -- Injustice -- Icons -- The grip of power: it will not be so among you. The hiddenness of power -- Force, coercion and violence -- The lure of privilege -- Institutions and creative power: from generation to generation. The gift of institutions -- Principalities, powers and broken institutions -- Becoming trustees -- The end of power: we had to celebrate. Disciplined power -- The Sabbath leader -- The end of power

Introduction -- Part I: Culture -- The horizons of the possible -- Cultural worlds -- Teardowns, technology and change -- Cultivation and creation -- Gestures and postures -- Part II: Gospel -- The garden and the city -- Interlude : the primordial story -- The least of the nations -- Jesus as culture maker -- From Pentecost -- To Revelation -- The glorious impossible -- Part III: Calling -- Why we can't change the world -- The traces of God -- Power -- Community -- Grace -- Postscript: Artist in his studio

"Through storytelling and spirited dialogue, a father-daughter team shares the struggles and rewards of making intentional choices about technology use during the teen years, setting teens on a path toward the love, confidence, and joy that every kid is looking for"--