{"id":259564,"date":"2026-05-30T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/andy-crouch-on-technology-work-family-balance-and-home\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:25:16","slug":"andy-crouch-on-technology-work-family-balance-and-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/andy-crouch-on-technology-work-family-balance-and-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Crouch on Technology, Work-Family Balance, and Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/life-in-the-third-oikos-a-conversation-with-andy-crouch\">Andy Crouch on Technology, Work-Family Balance, and Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/life-in-the-third-oikos-a-conversation-with-andy-crouch\">https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/life-in-the-third-oikos-a-conversation-with-andy-crouch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 09:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"ifstudies.org\">ifstudies.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy Crouch has spent his life in three worlds\u2014higher education, journalism and technology\u2014 without formal credentials. He studied classics at Cornell, got his Masters of Divinity at Boston University, spent a decade in campus ministry at Harvard and served as executive editor of\u00a0Christianity Today. Now, he works at\u00a0Praxis, a venture-building community rooted in what they call &#8220;redemptive entrepreneurship.&#8221; Along the way, he&#8217;s written some of the most influential Christian books on technology and family life of the past two decades:\u00a0Culture Making,\u00a0The Tech-Wise Family, and\u00a0The Life We&#8217;re Looking For.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">His wife, Catherine, is chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Swarthmore College. Their two children are grown, which makes Crouch the first subject in this series to speak from the other side of the child-rearing years. Andy paints a vision of the household broader than the nuclear family that begins before children arrive and matters long after they leave\u2014a &#8220;formative environment to become human together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><strong>Nicole: You&#8217;ve studied classics and divinity\u2014and now you work on something called &#8220;redemptive entrepreneurship&#8221; at an organization called\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Praxis<\/strong><strong>. That&#8217;s an unusual path. What&#8217;s the through-line?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><strong>Andy<\/strong>: I&#8217;m not sure one could say I&#8217;ve had a career. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time in and around three worlds: higher education, Christian campus ministry, and journalism. But two things have been consistent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">The first is a deep love for technology. My father brought home a terminal from Syracuse University, where he was on faculty, when I was 10 or 11; it connected to the mainframe at 300 bits per second. I fell in love with programming. My dad started taking me out of school one day a week, dropping me off at the computer center where graduate students took me under their wing. Some of my first programs were submitted on punch cards. I&#8217;ve taught myself every generation of programming languages since.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">The second is that in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/life-in-the-third-oikos-a-conversation-with-andy-crouch\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Crouch on Technology, Work-Family Balance, and Home https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/life-in-the-third-oikos-a-conversation-with-andy-crouch Publish Date: 2026-05-30 09:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ifstudies.b-cdn.net\/ifs-admin\/resources\/blog\/key-shutterstock2737651937.jpg?","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-259564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259566,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259564\/revisions\/259566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}