Wired for Wonder

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ISBN: 9798889833451

Dispatches on Technology, Culture, God, and Self

Aaron Cline Hanbury

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Broadleaf Books
19 May 2026

Christian social thought & activity

An exploration of what it means to be human in a technological age.

Like it or not, tech is part of the air we breathe. New technologies are everywhere, and they're breathlessly marketed to us as good, even while almost every sociological measure says we're not doing well. Figuring out how to navigate--to use, not to use, how to use--new technologies has become an unavoidable part of twenty-first-century life.

In Wired for Wonder, writer and editor Aaron Cline Hanbury explores the massive and mundane ways technology shapes and reshapes our world. What does it mean to be human when AI can do more and more? Does technological advancement necessarily mean human progress? Where is our attention going, and who is buying it? How should our faith inform our relationship to technology? Rather than offering a book of how-tos and tips, Hanbury winsomely asks: How do we relate to the stuff we make?

Through relatable, regular-person dispatches from the intersections of technology, faith, and the everyday, Wired for Wonder gives voice to those who wonder if this technocentric moment makes our world--and us--better or worse. By breaking open the unnecessary binary between tech optimists and luddites, Hanbury suggests that wrestling with new things (technological or otherwise) is part of what it means to be human--and part of the Christian calling to tend to the earth.

By: Aaron Cline Hanbury
Imprint: Broadleaf Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 146mm,
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9798889833451
Pages: 179
Publication Date: 19 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aaron Cline Hanbury is a writer and editor whose essays and profiles have appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic. He is the founding editor of the award-winning magazine Common Good, and a past editor of RELEVANT magazine. He lives in the Atlanta area with his wife, Hannah, and their daughters.

Reviews for Wired for Wonder: Dispatches on Technology, Culture, God, and Self

""With wit, humor, and relatability, Aaron Cline Hanbury offers deep insight into what it means to be human in a technocentric world. This is an important read."" --Carolyn Chen, author of Work Pray Code ""In these wide-ranging meditations on AI and social media for general readers, Hanbury explores how humans, who he sees as wondrously wired by God, can and should respond to the web of technological systems that increasingly ensnare them in a world wired by secular tech behemoths who care nothing about God and everything about profit. Particularly suited for millennials confronted by the dehumanizing forces of 21st-century technologies."" --Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer-Prize winning co-author of On Faith and Science ""You might well finish this book feeling you've found a new friend. Hanbury's intimate, quirky, colloquial, and deeply thoughtful reflections on electronic technology and the moral life--a life of rightly ordered attention, rightly oriented longing, and human presence, including hugs, in which we flourish--feel like conversation. We're invited in. It's an invitation worth accepting."" --Marilyn McEntyre, author of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies and Word by Word