Earlier this year I was speaking at Liberty University to a large group of undergraduates. The topic was cultural apologetics, and I explained our strategy at The Gospel Coalition. I said we’re happy to meet you online. Then we tell you to go touch grass. It was my only applause line in about an hour on stage. And it told me something about Gen Z.

They may be the group that breaks the strangleholds of smartphones and social media.

No doubt we hope to aid in that effort through a new book, Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age, published by TGC with Crossway. The editors are my good friends and long-time colleagues Brett McCracken and Ivan Mesa. We’re building on the previous work of Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, published 40 years ago and focusing on television. Our situation has changed, though the underlying problems remain—or have even grown. Brett writes, “From the rising of the sun to its going down, we scroll our way through the day. We scroll our way through life. And we are scrolling ourselves to death.”

You were created for realities, not vibes. Put down the digital syringe. Pick up a few copies of this book, grab some friends, and find a patch of grass where you can enjoy God together.