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Samuel James

Samuel James serves as developmental and acquisitions editor at Crossway Books. He is the author of Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age (Crossway, 2023). He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife Emily and their three children.

Let Digital Glory Die: Escaping the Online Inner Ring

Let Digital Glory Die

Escaping the Online Inner Ring

In a digital age, when anything can become content for posting, how can we escape the pull of online glory-seeking? The answer awaits us in secret.

Digital Resistance: Three Habits for the Internet Age

Digital Resistance

Three Habits for the Internet Age

In a world where digital devices vie for every moment of our attention, we need intentional habits that keep us alive to the gifts of God’s word and world.

Read Like a Christian: Five Principles for What and How

Read Like a Christian

Five Principles for What and How

Not all reading is Christian reading — even when the books are about Jesus. So, how might we bring our literary lives under the lordship of Christ?

The Power of ‘Intellectual Technologies’

The Power of ‘Intellectual Technologies’

Subtly yet deeply, our immersion in the Internet forms us, cultivating our values and shaping our beliefs. How might Christians resist the pull of the digital dreamworld?

Jesus Versus the Trade-In Society: Finding Happiness in an Upgrade Age

Jesus Versus the Trade-In Society

Finding Happiness in an Upgrade Age

A trade-in society treasures phrases like “no commitment necessary” and “cancel anytime,” and the consequences are not just social, but spiritual.

Courage Takes More Than a Keyboard: Christian Nerve in a Digital Age

Courage Takes More Than a Keyboard

Christian Nerve in a Digital Age

As more and more of our lives go online, we are in regular danger of possessing bold keyboards while lacking similar courage face to face.

How to Survive a Life Like Yours: Why Self-Help Is Only Some Help

How to Survive a Life Like Yours

Why Self-Help Is Only Some Help

Why do self-help books sell so well? Because we know how much wisdom we need, and we’re looking in all the wrong pages.

Constantly (Dis)connected: How Online Habits Form Us

Constantly (Dis)connected

How Online Habits Form Us

Our habits online form us in ways we often don’t realize. If we’re going to love God and neighbor in our digital age, we desperately need analog truth.

He Made Me Lean on Him: Four Tips for Your Twenties

He Made Me Lean on Him

Four Tips for Your Twenties

Most of us are blindsided by the harshness of reality in our twenties. Fill your soul with God now so that you’re not devastated when life comes.

What Netflix Cannot Give — and Death Cannot Take

What Netflix Cannot Give — and Death Cannot Take

Joy is not a participation trophy in the Christian life. It is a prize to be won, an animal to be caught, a treasure we sacrifice whatever necessary to have.

How to Leave Porn Behind

How to Leave Porn Behind

Christian men are fighting a losing battle with pornography because they are trying to remove the sin without adopting a radical lifestyle of repentance.

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