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!
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'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 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?!
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'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...