Brett McCracken – The Wisdom of Sleep

How is sleep a sacred gift that restores us?

Brent talks with Brett McCracken about his new IVP book ‘The Wisdom of Sleep: How Rest Reveals God’s Truth and Revives Weary Souls’.

Brett is an author and journalist based in Southern California.  He serves as a senior editor at the Gospel Coalition where he writes on the intersection of faith and culture.  He’s written a number of books.      

(1:00) Sleep as a place where God shakes us out of time; (2:30) Why do we sleep? (3:45) Rest in modern culture; (5:10) Sleep and death; (6:55) Transhumanism and sleep; (8:30) Christianity and sleep; (9:35) Sleeping better; (12:05) Imagination and sleep; (19:40) Scripture and dreams; (18:20) God’s rest in Genesis; (20:40) Sleeping as an act of faith.   

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Sleep-Reveals-Truth-Revives/dp/0310175712

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