Phillip Johnston
Phillip Johnston is an editor, researcher, and speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee. A former staff member at English L’Abri, Phillip is also the curator of Three Things, a newsletter digest of three resources to help readers better engage with God, neighbor, and culture. In his spare time, he geeks out on slow movies, Bach cantatas, liturgical theology, and all things food.
Bio last updated August 9th, 2019.
Articles by Phillip Johnston
Love In An Age Of Information Overload
By Phillip Johnston
August 9, 2019
With information flying towards us at lightning speed like a game of Tetris, our capacity to love and attend to others is hindered, writes Phillip Johnston.
Once we understand how intimately love is connected with attention, we are ready to see the many ways that information overload inhibits our loving The struggle for love is only intensified by the fact that we live within the power structures of the attention economy Because love is intimately connected with attention, our habits of distraction shape the way in which we love or fail to love the people and places in our care In the nineteenth century, the first attention merchants were newspaper publishers who offered consumers free tabloid newspapers chock full of advertisements