Why write in your books

Via Brain Pickings, the importance of writing in your books: “[Marginalia is] simply too essential a canvas for digesting and disputing concepts, too key a voice box for our inner monologue about the world of words and ideas.”

Virginia Woolf on reading

Via Brain Pickings, a recap of Virginia Woolf’s advice on how to read a book: “Woolf — an eloquent champion of the joy of reading — considers reading not a means to some intellectual end, but an intellectual and creative reward in itself.”Amazon.com...

Help for the long term unemployed

Via Tuscaloosa News, a non-profit helping the long term unemployed: Platform to Employment…targets a major scar of the Great Recession: The 2.6 million Americans who have been jobless for over six months. Many of them have long felt ignored by employers who assume...

Rounding out the Gospel

Via Christianity Today, ensuring compassion joins with proclamation and formation in how the church interacts in communities: I learned that we needed to put compassion front and center. Compassion is a language Christians can understand in our hurting world: the need...