I love reading books. I’ll be 84 years old by the end of this month, was blessed to grow up in an era without even a TV in our home till my college years. But I gravitated toward computers, learning to program on a main-frame before the first PC, got a PC at the first opportunity, and have been basically addicted ever since. Still read books (50% on kindle) in good numbers.
I’ve been realizing lately that the biggest distraction from reading books these days is — SUBSTACK. It’s people, often friends or people who become virtual friends….people like YOU, my friend…who fill my morning inbox with tempting topics like “What does a post-literate culture look like?”
This is the paradox. Quite seriously, my kindle copy of “You are not your own” is showing something like 33% complete, while your Substack (and oh so many others) do get read, hearted, commented on!
Christ was most definitely a reader. At a minimum, he knew the Tanakh, seemingly, by heart. When the Pharisees came at him, "...Jesus answered them, 'You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.' Matthew 22:29
That keeps me motivated not only to read Scripture but to memorize it. At the risk of being melodramatic, they can burn my books but they'll have to erase my memory to get at what I've got stored up there...
...now if I only could find where I put my glasses.
I'm convinced that half of the problem with Keller's most vocal critics is that they haven't read him deeply. It's all just a game of Telephone, where someone heard that someone else said that someone who went to Redeemer once thought...
I'm reading fewer and fewer books each year. I graduated from college with a degree in English literature. Now it's hard to read an entire book. And I've noticed that books are getting shorter. Your last one and Prior's last book were surprisingly short. So so good, but short. The last novel I completed was Peace Like a River by Lief Enger. That was a year ago.
Joining a monthly book club helped me. I am introduced to new authors, and I have great incentive to read the novel in order to formulate my opinion instead of only listening to other members.
Thank you for your insights. I’ll be honest. This one was a “hard read” only bevause it is so, so woefully true. The phones :(. Thank you for the truth that “God will, of course, preserve His church.”
I love reading books. I’ll be 84 years old by the end of this month, was blessed to grow up in an era without even a TV in our home till my college years. But I gravitated toward computers, learning to program on a main-frame before the first PC, got a PC at the first opportunity, and have been basically addicted ever since. Still read books (50% on kindle) in good numbers.
I’ve been realizing lately that the biggest distraction from reading books these days is — SUBSTACK. It’s people, often friends or people who become virtual friends….people like YOU, my friend…who fill my morning inbox with tempting topics like “What does a post-literate culture look like?”
This is the paradox. Quite seriously, my kindle copy of “You are not your own” is showing something like 33% complete, while your Substack (and oh so many others) do get read, hearted, commented on!
What’s a serious reader to do?!
Christ was most definitely a reader. At a minimum, he knew the Tanakh, seemingly, by heart. When the Pharisees came at him, "...Jesus answered them, 'You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.' Matthew 22:29
That keeps me motivated not only to read Scripture but to memorize it. At the risk of being melodramatic, they can burn my books but they'll have to erase my memory to get at what I've got stored up there...
...now if I only could find where I put my glasses.
I'm convinced that half of the problem with Keller's most vocal critics is that they haven't read him deeply. It's all just a game of Telephone, where someone heard that someone else said that someone who went to Redeemer once thought...
I'm reading fewer and fewer books each year. I graduated from college with a degree in English literature. Now it's hard to read an entire book. And I've noticed that books are getting shorter. Your last one and Prior's last book were surprisingly short. So so good, but short. The last novel I completed was Peace Like a River by Lief Enger. That was a year ago.
Joining a monthly book club helped me. I am introduced to new authors, and I have great incentive to read the novel in order to formulate my opinion instead of only listening to other members.
Thank you for your insights. I’ll be honest. This one was a “hard read” only bevause it is so, so woefully true. The phones :(. Thank you for the truth that “God will, of course, preserve His church.”