Notes

Introduction: Help!

1. Nancy Sleeth, Almost Amish: One Woman’s Quest for a Slower, Simpler, More Sustainable Life (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2012).

2. Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).

3. See, for instance, Catherine de Lange, “No Pain, No Gain? Getting the Most out of Exercise,” Guardian, January 13, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/13/no-pain-no-gain-exercise-heart-health-dementia-cancer.

4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, trans. John W. Doberstein (New York: Harper & Row, 1954), 77.

Chapter 1 Choosing Character

1. “Bisphenol A (BPA),” National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, last reviewed July 15, 2015, http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-bpa/index.cfm.

2. “Contraceptive Use in the United States,” Guttmacher Institute, September 2016, https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-states.

3. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, in The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, vol. 15, Chesterton on Dickens (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1989), 188.

4. Jonathan Vespa, Jamie M. Lewis, and Rose M. Kreider, “America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012,” United States Census Bureau, August 2013, https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-570.pdf.

Chapter 3 Structuring Time

1. Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (New York: Hachette, 2016).

2. Dan Lyons, “Congratulations! You’ve Been Fired,” New York Times, April 9, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/congratulations-youve-been-fired.html?_r=0.

3. Albert Borgmann, Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 136–37.

4. William Alden and Sydne Ember, “Banks Ease Hours for Junior Staff, but Workload Stays Same,” Dealbook, New York Times, April 9, 2014, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/banks-ease-hours-for-junior-staff-but-workload-stays-same/?_r=0.

5. Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2013), chap. 13.

Chapter 4 Waking and Sleeping

1. “Sleep, Learning, and Memory,” Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, last reviewed December 18, 2007, http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/benefits-of-sleep/learning-memory.

2. Jessica Schmerler, “Q&A: Why Is Blue Light before Bedtime Bad for Sleep?,” Scientific American, September 2, 2015, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/q-a-why-is-blue-light-before-bedtime-bad-for-sleep/.

3. Barna Group, survey of 1,021 US parents of children ages four to seventeen, January 25 to February 4, 2016; see “About the Research” for more information.

Chapter 5 Learning and Working

1. Ferris Jabr, “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens,” Scientific American, April 11, 2013, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/.

2. See, e.g., Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz, “Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory, and Cognition 40, no. 4 (July 2014): 1142–52.

3. See, e.g., Connie Kasari et al., “iPads Can Help Children Learn Spoken Language: FAQ & Tips from Experts,” Autism Speaks, https://www.autismspeaks.org/family-services/technology/iPad-FAQ-Tips.

Chapter 6 The Good News about Boredom

1. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., s.v. “bore”; Merriam-Webster Dictionary, online ed., s.v. “ennui,” accessed October 18, 2016, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ennui.

2. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., s.v. “bore.”

3. “Lawns and Lawn History,” The Lawn Institute, accessed October 18, 2016, http://www.thelawninstitute.org/pages/education/lawn-history/lawns-and-lawn-history/.

4. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994), 32.

5. Sally Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name (Grand Rapids: Zonderkidz, 2007).

Chapter 7 The Deep End of the (Car) Pool

1. Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (New York: Penguin, 2015), 153, 322.

2. Ralph Hanson, “Text Messaging Deemed More Dangerous Than Alcohol or Cannabis behind the Wheel,” Motor Authority, September 18, 2008, http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1029714_text-messaging-deemed-more-dangerous-than-alcohol-or-cannabis-behind-the-wheel.

Chapter 8 Naked and Unashamed

1. Jonathan Vespa, Jamie M. Lewis, and Rose M. Kreider, “America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012,” United States Census Bureau, August 2013, https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-570.pdf.

2. One good summary of the extensive literature on father absence is Father Facts 7 (Germantown, MD: National Fatherhood Initiative, 2016).

3. D’Vera Cohn et al., “Barely Half of U.S. Adults Are Married—A Record Low,” Pew Research Center, December 14, 2011, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/12/14/barely-half-of-u-s-adults-are-married-a-record-low/.

4. Sebastian Anthony, “Just How Big Are Porn Sites?,” Extreme Tech, April 4, 2012, http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites.

5. Barna Group, The Porn Phenomenon: The Impact of Pornography in the Digital Age (Ventura, CA: Barna, 2016), 28–29.

6. A recent example is Chyng Sun et al., “Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 45 (May 2016): 983–94.

7. A good introduction from a Christian point of view to the neuroscience of pornography—for men—is William Struthers, Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2010).

Chapter 9 Why Singing Matters

1. “The Moravians and John Wesley,” Christianity Today, accessed October 18, 2016, http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-1/moravians-and-john-wesley.html.

2. I heard of the widespread singing in Haiti from friends who were there at the time of the earthquake, and its extent is similarly attested in Elizabeth McAlister, “Soundscapes of Disaster and Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, and the Haiti Earthquake,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism 39 (November 2012): 22–38.

Chapter 10 In Sickness and in Health

1. Polycom, Inc., Preparing Your IP Network for High Definition Video Conferencing, accessed October 18, 2016, pg. 3, http://www.polycom.com/content/dam/polycom/common/documents/whitepapers/hd-video-conferencing-wp-enus.pdf.

2. Andrea C. Phelps et al., “Association between Religious Coping and Use of Intensive Life-Prolonging Care near Death among Patients with Advanced Cancer,” Journal of the American Medical Association 301, no. 11 (March 18, 2009): 1140–47.