Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great...

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It’s asking us to stop...

Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim–readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it–the first lesson must be in humility. . . ....

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

Objections to Christianity… are phrased in words, but that does not mean that they are really a matter of language and analysis and argument. Words are tokens of the will. If something stronger than language...

I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says ‘Judge...

…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason – we talk about freeing ourselves from the shackles of the rational mind and that sort...

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as reflecting Jesus Christ and his church. And if only for this...

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.