Most of us in business do not wake up intending to ‘amuse ourselves to death.’ We wake up thinking about payroll, customers, margins, and the decisions waiting on our desks. Yet an old book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, presses an uncomfortable question on Christian professionals: What if the very media environment in which we work is quietly training us to prefer diversion over depth, optics over truth, and performance over faithfulness?

I often get greeted with the usual, “How are you doing?” and I confess, I still love to answer with that odd little line from Ecclesiastes 9:4: “It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion.” People usually stare at me as if I’ve just quoted a fortune cookie written by a crazy uncle, and then they move on to their real conversation.