The Life We’re Looking For

Something’s wrong.

We’re powerful. We’re technologically advanced. By most standards, we’re rich. We can get almost anything we want delivered to our door in hours.

And yet loneliness is rampant. The happiness we were promised seems elusive, always out of grasp, perhaps even farther away than before.

The problem, according to Andy Crouch in his new book The Life We’re Looking For, is that the promises of the modern technological world are built on “a false understanding of what huma...