My name is Tony Reinke, an author, non-profit journalist, and the creator, host, and producer of John Piper’s podcast now in its fourteenth year (Ask Pastor John). The bulk of my work centers on how we best flourish in the tech age saturated by innovation, media, and enough on-demand video to fill our eyes for 100 lifetimes. Church history has been a focus for me in the past, and will be in the future (DV).

My research interests are reflected in my seven book projects to date:

• Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books (Crossway, 2011) — a theology of literature and literacy, and packed with a bunch of realistic tips for getting more reading done in our digitally-busy lives.
• Newton on the Christian Life: To Live Is Christ (Crossway, 2015) — a detailed study of the timeless pastoral counsel from the personal letters of John Newton (1725–1807), a slave trader turned gentle pastor.
• 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You (Crossway, 2017) — a deep look into the pros and cons of our new digital lives . . . lives that are never offline.
• The Joy Project: An Introduction to Calvinism (with Study Guide) (DG & Cruciform, 2018) — an introduction to how we are saved, why we are saved, and why happiness is at the center of God’s plan.
• Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Digital Age (Crossway, 2019) — an essay to help Christians thrive in the age of digital eye candy.
• God, Technology, and the Christian Life (Crossway, 2022) — a biblical study to explain where technology came from, where it’s headed, and how we should relate to it now.
• Ask Pastor John: 750 Bible Answers to Life’s Most Important Questions (Crossway; March 5, 2024) — a CliffsNotes compendium of the 750 most popular episodes from our podcast’s first decade.

My Background

I’m a Christian, more specifically, an evangelical, reformed, credo-baptist, complementarian, continuationist, Christian hedonist. I believe the glorious and profound biblical truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, and I was happy to sign this document.

Married for 25 years to the wife of my youth and my best friend, we have three precious kids, mostly named after dead preachers. My work mixes theological research, content curating, writing, editing, interviewing, audio broadcasting, and social media.

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Writings

Solo Books:

• Ask Pastor John: 750 Bible Answers to Life’s Most Important Questions (Crossway, 2024).
• God, Technology, and the Christian Life (Crossway, 2022).
• Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Digital Age (Crossway, 2019).
• The Joy Project: An Introduction to Calvinism (with Study Guide) (DG & Cruciform, 2018).
• 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You (Crossway, 2017)
• Newton on the Christian Life: To Live Is Christ (Crossway, 2015)
• Lit! A Christian Guide To Reading Books (Crossway, 2011)

Edited Books:

• Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother’s Heart and Hope (2014) free ebook here
• An All-Consuming Passion for Jesus: Appeals to the Rising Generation (2014) free ebook here
• Love To The Uttermost: Devotional Readings For Holy Week (2013) free ebook here
• Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God (2012) free ebook here
• Take Care How You Listen (2012) free ebook here
• A Workman Approved by God (2008) free ebook here

Edited Booklets:

• Easter Changes Everything: A Theological Devotional (2015)
• Biblical Productivity (2010)

Chapters:

• “Sloth” in Killjoys: The Seven Deadly Sins (2015) free ebook here
• “Everyday Godward” (on leading family devotions) first published in Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood (2014), free ebook here; later published in the book Designed for Joy: How the Gospel Impacts Men and Women, Identity and Practice (2015)

Articles:

• “Dragons and Holiness,” TableTalk (2013)
• “Marriage in the Cosmic Plan of God,” JBMW (2012)