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“Though having churches get involved in teaching reading may seem like a new challenge, closing literacy gaps has been a consistent part of the Protestant tradition.” - TGC
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Start Here: Reading Charles H. Spurgeon — An Annotated Bibliography for Beginners
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“In less than 40 years, Spurgeon published approximately 150 books. His literary output was, in a word, prodigious. With such a vast literary catalogue, where does one even begin?” - TGC
Eusebius, Early Christianity’s Historian
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“Essentially, Eusebius gathered up the entire first three centuries of the faith and packaged them in his History, a book that still affords stimulating reading.” - Imaginative Conservative
Beyond Efficiency: The Cost of Outsourcing Our Thinking
Last semester, one of my friends, who adjuncts at a local college, told a story about how he pulled one of his students aside after reading an essay that didn’t quite sound like him. The tone seemed too polished and robotic. The structure came across symmetrically predictable. It eventually came out that the young man had used AI to write the paper. But that wasn’t the part that blew up my brain.
Reading Isn’t “Dead”: Text Is (Still) King
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“The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput…. We are careening toward a post-literate society, where myth, intuition, and emotion replace logic, evidence, and science. Nobody needs to bomb us back to the Stone Age; we have decided to walk there ourselves. I am skeptical of this thesis.” - Persuasion
To Foster Biblical Literacy, Teach People to Read
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“Only a familiarity with books of all sorts enables students to pick up on the clues about what an author is doing and how he’s doing it. They need to read—a lot. To foster biblical literacy, we need to foster literacy in general.” - TGC
Editor’s Pick: 6 Books on Christian Apologetics
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“Amid this flood of solid resources, these six recently published books on apologetics can help renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.” - TGC
To Read Is Human
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“We are what we read, shaped intellectually and spiritually and relationally over the course of a lifetime…. we are formed even by books we merely heard of and have an inkling about their contents. As they marinate in our memory for years and decades, these books become part of our own invisible inner libraries.” - Providence
Disturbing but Worth It: Getting Outside Our Bubble
In seminary we were encouraged—well, required—to read outside our own theological perspective. A few students recoiled a bit. They had been living in a bubble, and those outside it had been mostly ignored, sometimes caricatured, but never directly listened to with the goal of accurate understanding.
Most students relished the wider reading. They’d already learned that curiosity, personal connection, and questioning assumptions can result in life-changing bursts of discovery and personal growth.
… which is why effective educational institutions do that sort of thing.
Read Books, Not AI Summaries of Books
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“Why not ‘read’ more books by leaning on AI’s synthesizing prowess, gaining knowledge more efficiently? Because it’s a bad trade. It’s like swapping a feast for fast food.” - TGC
