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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/2/2009 10:02:44 PM
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bzirk
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A thought first: ever consider how many of us actually read? You here all these things about folks not reading in the US and yet you see this line upon line of Christians opening books and enjoying them. Maybe because so much of what passes in Hollywood as entertainment misses us completely?
Just sp[ot-read MacArthur's Faith Works for another forum. Daily on the Lucado Grace for the Moment. Hustling God by M. Craig Barnes.
Did you notice, too, how many of us re-read books. Thanks, Mr. Lewis.
Frankly, it seems to me that most Christians are not readers. Sadly, that's just our culture. Reading usually takes a little patience, and most people have been conditioned to get everything NOW and not being willing to wait -- including a lot of Christians. So most of the books that are really popular are books that don't take a lot of time or effort to come to the point. They're almost like commercials or infomercials in written form. They move reading from something that is active to something passive. For example Purpose Driven Life. I have long thought it achieved what it has because it was written for today's audience. Look at how the points are made -- not even sentences but quick, between the eyes phrases that don't require a lot of thought. By the way, if that's the kind of book that's appropriate for today's audience, then so be it. But it's kind of a shame that with all of our freedom, we're not willing to put in more effort to exercise our brains.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/2/2009 10:11:57 PM
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I am reading When God Writes Your Love Story, by Eric and Leslie Ludy. It's a re-read. I read so fast that by the time I get to "reading" something, it's usually "read" in a day or two.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/3/2009 3:29:14 AM
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A thought first: ever consider how many of us actually read? You here all these things about folks not reading in the US and yet you see this line upon line of Christians opening books and enjoying them. Maybe because so much of what passes in Hollywood as entertainment misses us completely?
Just sp[ot-read MacArthur's Faith Works for another forum. Daily on the Lucado Grace for the Moment. Hustling God by M. Craig Barnes.
Did you notice, too, how many of us re-read books. Thanks, Mr. Lewis.
Frankly, it seems to me that most Christians are not readers. Sadly, that's just our culture. Reading usually takes a little patience, and most people have been conditioned to get everything NOW and not being willing to wait -- including a lot of Christians. So most of the books that are really popular are books that don't take a lot of time or effort to come to the point. They're almost like commercials or infomercials in written form. They move reading from something that is active to something passive. For example Purpose Driven Life. I have long thought it achieved what it has because it was written for today's audience. Look at how the points are made -- not even sentences but quick, between the eyes phrases that don't require a lot of thought. By the way, if that's the kind of book that's appropriate for today's audience, then so be it. But it's kind of a shame that with all of our freedom, we're not willing to put in more effort to exercise our brains.
I think your comments might apply to the US, or even to "the west", but not to Christians worldwide. I think that there are parts of the world where people in general read more than we do in the US. And I think that Christians in those parts of the world read even more than their neighbors do.
Perhaps missonaries will come to the US from countries like that, and teach us how to read our Bible!
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/3/2009 12:08:19 PM
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I just finished Marley and Me. I love that book.
I love that book too and I know that it will be one that I'll reread.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/3/2009 3:58:50 PM
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The Custer Companion by Thom Hatch.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/3/2009 7:00:09 PM
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The Saving Life of Christ by Ian Thomas
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/3/2009 8:56:00 PM
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I just finished The Season by Sarah Maclean. Good book. Excellently written.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/4/2009 1:10:48 PM
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A thought first: ever consider how many of us actually read? You here all these things about folks not reading in the US and yet you see this line upon line of Christians opening books and enjoying them. Maybe because so much of what passes in Hollywood as entertainment misses us completely?
Just sp[ot-read MacArthur's Faith Works for another forum. Daily on the Lucado Grace for the Moment. Hustling God by M. Craig Barnes.
Did you notice, too, how many of us re-read books. Thanks, Mr. Lewis.
Frankly, it seems to me that most Christians are not readers. Sadly, that's just our culture. Reading usually takes a little patience, and most people have been conditioned to get everything NOW and not being willing to wait -- including a lot of Christians. So most of the books that are really popular are books that don't take a lot of time or effort to come to the point. They're almost like commercials or infomercials in written form. They move reading from something that is active to something passive. For example Purpose Driven Life. I have long thought it achieved what it has because it was written for today's audience. Look at how the points are made -- not even sentences but quick, between the eyes phrases that don't require a lot of thought. By the way, if that's the kind of book that's appropriate for today's audience, then so be it. But it's kind of a shame that with all of our freedom, we're not willing to put in more effort to exercise our brains.
I think your comments might apply to the US, or even to "the west", but not to Christians worldwide. I think that there are parts of the world where people in general read more than we do in the US. And I think that Christians in those parts of the world read even more than their neighbors do.
Perhaps missonaries will come to the US from countries like that, and teach us how to read our Bible!
Sad commentary about missionairies coming to teach us to read the Bible, but there's some truth in that.
I don't know that this lack of reading is limited to the U.S., but probably is more of a western thing although some of the developed (and developing) countries in the East are catching up to us on this shift toward not reading. Basically, it's evident in countries where entertainment technology is so readily available. People tend to fill up their time with that instead of reading. Missionaries are usually in places (not always but usually) where this kind of technology is not so easily accessible, so it makes sense they're not distracted with it.
To bring this back to topic, so the mods won't slap me  :
A great book that deals in part with the subject is Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman. Somewhere way back on this thread or one of the older ones is my comment about reading it. LOL!
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/6/2009 4:24:37 PM
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Retribution (Last book in the City of God Series) by Randall Ingermanson
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/6/2009 7:00:27 PM
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I finished Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag and am now reading The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/6/2009 8:05:29 PM
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Finished:
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (Niebuhr)
Savage Beauty: the Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
The Art and Soul of Baking
A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/7/2009 3:56:34 PM
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I am reading "The Truth War" by John MacArthur. It is very good! An excellent read
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/7/2009 3:57:31 PM
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If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/7/2009 9:32:13 PM
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Now reading "Poltergeist" by Kat Richardson.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/8/2009 8:18:58 AM
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I'm re-reading some of my old science fiction books: Currently reading To the Stars by Harry Harrison
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/8/2009 3:09:13 PM
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/8/2009 8:32:02 PM
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Middle Eastern Mythology by S. H. Hooke.
Dated (1963) but I'm enjoying it so far. I expect to disagree with the later chapters, though.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/9/2009 7:45:55 AM
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I'm about 40 pages in to The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks. So far, so good.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/10/2009 11:24:59 AM
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The Good Life: seeking purpose, meaning and truth in life by Charles Colson
One of my very close friends is pushing me to read her copy of Glenn Beck's Common Sense. It does not interest me but to keep our friendship I believe I will have to read it. I hope I enjoy it.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/10/2009 1:47:40 PM
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The Family by Jeff Sharlet
and what bzirk said up there,
" Frankly, it seems to me that most Christians are not readers. Sadly, that's just our culture. Reading usually takes a little patience, and most people have been conditioned to get everything NOW and not being willing to wait -- including a lot of Christians. So most of the books that are really popular are books that don't take a lot of time or effort to come to the point. They're almost like commercials or infomercials in written form. They move reading from something that is active to something passive. For example Purpose Driven Life. I have long thought it achieved what it has because it was written for today's audience. Look at how the points are made -- not even sentences but quick, between the eyes phrases that don't require a lot of thought. By the way, if that's the kind of book that's appropriate for today's audience, then so be it. But it's kind of a shame that with all of our freedom, we're not willing to put in more effort to exercise our brains. "
I agree. am guilty of but agree with. Need to read more.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/10/2009 7:02:00 PM
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Hand Me Another Brick by Charles Swindoll.
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RE: What Are You Currently Reading? - 7/12/2009 11:45:56 AM
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Through Gates Of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot.
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