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Read, Write, Worship

Finding God between the lines of literature.

First Language First

Christians make real education possible for 21 million Filipino students.

Have We Forgotten the Power of Poetry?

While Afghani women risk their lives for verse, we ignore it.

Subverting the Taliban

Some things Christians can do to stop terrorists in Pakistan from shooting girls.

Why Early Childhood Parenting Is a Gospel Priority

As the youngest members of society founder, so does society itself.

Why There's No Narnia in Our Home

Forget 'Slaughterhouse Five'—there's enough bloodshed in some of the best children's literature to raise my parenting fears.

Addicted to Books

My love of reading has too often become another way to stay busy rather than practice 'holy leisure.'

LaVonne's Top 40 Books of the Decade

A good list to take the next time you go to the library.

So, How Are Those Summer Reading Lists Coming?

How to read the Bible in an age of anxiety; plus three book reviews from Christine A. Scheller.

What Are You Reading This Summer?

We've offered some lists if you haven't decided yet.

Translation Tiff

Some Jamaicans aren't eager to see a Bible in the country's majority language.

Winning the Oral Majority  Subscriber access only

Mission agencies rethink outreach to the world's non-literate masses.

Orality at Home  Subscriber access only

The language of postmodernism.

Visualcy  Subscriber access only

Literacy is not the only necessity in a visual culture.

Invitation to Paganism  Subscriber access only

The Vanishing Word laments the loss of the logos.

Where Would Civilization Be Without Christianity? The Gift of Literacy  Subscriber access only

In many parts of the world, the birth of literacy coincides with the arrival of Christian missionaries.
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Crossways tells Bible stories in pictures
A Twin Cities company is wowing missionaries with illustrated Bible lessons that sidestep language and literacy problems. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
The Problem of Evangelical Biblical Illiteracy
For well over twenty years now, Christian leaders have been lamenting the loss of general biblical literacy in America. A good bit of the blame for the existing crisis has to fall at the feet of historic American evangelicalism itself. (Modern Reformation)

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