Though not exhaustive, the following is a list of some of the material I have been wading through as I ponder this topic. It will surely grow and evolve over time.

Work

• Leland Ryken, Work and Leisure in Christian Perspective

• Paul Heintzman, Leisure and Spirituality: Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Perspectives

• Miroslav Volf, Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work

• Dorothy Sayers, Why Work?

• Jeff Van Duzer, Why Business Matters to God (And What Still Needs to Be Fixed)

• Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work

• N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

• Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor)

• John Paul II, Laborem Exercens (On Human Work)

• John Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”

• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

• Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman

• Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

• Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community

• Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

• Wendell Berry, Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

• Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

• Anthony A. Hoekema, Created in God’s Image

Technology

• Albert Borgmann, Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry

• Albert Borgmann, Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology

• Craig M. Gay, Technology and Human Future: A Christian Appraisal

• Brian Bock, Christian Ethics in a Technological Age

• Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

• Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

• Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality

• Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

• Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes

• Giles Slade, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolesce in America

• Giles Slade, The Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness

• Tony Reinke, 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You

• Donald Kraybill, The Riddle of Amish Culture

• G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong With the World

• Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling

• Marva Dawn, Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society

• John Dyer, From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology

• Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

• Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other

• Romano Guardini, Letters From Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race

• Eric Brende, Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology

• Gregory Edward Reynolds, The Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Preaching in the Electronic Age

• J.V. Fesko, The Christian and Technology

• Kirkpatrick Sale, Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution

• Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization

• Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power

• E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

• Margaret C. Jacob, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West

• Matthew Scully, Dominion

• John Ruskin, “The Work of Iron, In Nature, Art, and Policy”

• Henry David Thoreau Walden; or, Life in the Woods

• Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity

• Peter D. Hershock, Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age

• Iain D. Thomson, Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity

• Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

Engaged Living

• William S. Coperthwaite, A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity

• Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow, A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living

• Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future

• Peter Korn, Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman

• David Pye, The Nature and Art of Workmanship

• Soetsu Yanagi, The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

• John-Mark L. Miravalle, Beauty: What It Is & Why It Matters

• C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

• Jonathan Moo and Douglas Moo, Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World

• Tom Chappell, Soul of a Business: Managing for Profit and the Common Good

• Craig Gay, Cash Values: Money and the Erosion of Meaning in Today’s Society

• Tom D. Tomer, God and Mammon: Living for Christ in an Affluent Culture

• Anthony Hoekema, The Bible and the Future

• G. K. Beale, We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry

• G. K. Beale, The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God

• Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters

• Matthew Lee Anderson, Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith

• Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

• Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview

• Richard Lints (ed), Personal Identity in Theological Perspective

• Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option

• Sander L. Gilman, Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture

• Chad Wriglesworth (ed), Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder

• Williams Bowman, Sally D. Hacker, and Michael L. Cain, Ecology

• Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slowness

• Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

• Joshua A. Bergamin “Being-in-the-flow: expert coping as beyond both thought and automaticity”