Eating the Book

Reading the Bible in 2012

Ah, the first day of a new year — time to look back, look ahead, keep calm & carry on. One of the things our household will be carrying on with in 2012 is reading through the Bible with a community of local fellow-readers. Door Creek and Blackhawk churches here in Madison are encouraging their communities to join in a reading plan called Eat This Book.

The reading plan includes three or four chapters of Scripture each day, accompanied by a reading from the Book of Psalms, and is posted on YouVersion.com. You can sign up there to have the daily readings sent to you via email or rss, and use that site to take notes & track your progress. The churches are also supporting this reading community by providing study guides & weekly teaching on the texts, all available at the links above.

The readings for today: Genesis 1-3 and Psalm 1. Join in if you like!

On the Discipline of Seeing

bridge-detail

When we read a text, we sometimes notice the overall outline, or perhaps a bit that interests us, and then we quit looking, and start to mentally fill in the rest. Just as nature is more varied than our natural mental ability to fill in, so the text … [Continue reading]

The Feel of Books

or, Bindings & Bodies

"Those of you who have seen my book, whatever you think of its contents, will probably agree it is a beautiful object. And if the physical book, as we've come to call it, is to resist the challenge of the ebook, it has to look like something worth … [Continue reading]

So, What Percentage Would Be Appropriate?

"In fact, it's hard to find a single minute during which the American public is not completely captivated by these shining... these dazzling..." -- Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles … [Continue reading]

Tomorrow is a Monday

St. Augustine said the rapture of the saved soul will “flow over” into the glorified body. In the light of our present specialized and depraved appetites we cannot imagine this torrens voluptatis.... Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and … [Continue reading]