What are you reading this week, and have you considered how to read with your fully embodied and relational self? Lent is fully underway. And the world is watching an entirely unjust war unfold in Ukraine. Refugees are flooding out…
Amid the latest rash of book bans, now is a good time to remind everyone that you have permission to read a book. Any book, in fact. You can read what suits you and introduce your children to those books…
Lenten Lights B This afternoon on my way home I stopped by the Greenhills Library and caught the last of the day’s sun on “The Readers.” Writing and reading are among the enduring ways human beings share wisdom and relationships…
How to Read Anatomy of a Schism is rooted in several academic disciplines (history, theology, psychology). Each clergywoman’s story stands on its own. Then each woman’s story is interwoven with other aspects of Baptist life and sources of Baptist identity…
A Brief History of Reading Part II (a story continued) So what happened? Why has fiction reading ebbed away? No single reason presents itself, but like certain public events, credit and blame can be spread around in a number of…
A Brief History of Reading Part I (mine, not everyone else’s) Although it is tempting tonight to try and be clever about today’sย failed prediction of the rapture, I’ll resist. Most of my friends on fb – and the rest of…