October 21, 2016
Churches and Reading, Conversation and Insight
From the new book Reading for the Common Good By C. Christopher Smith Reading is essential to the health and flourishing of our churches. However, reading and conversation must go hand in hand. Reading that is most beneficial is reading that takes its cues from and is shared and discussed””in some way or another””with the local church body. Just as a body works together””seeing, feeling, listening””to understand its identity, so our churches are faced with the task of working together to understand our identity. Reading is a valuable tool in this process of discerning our identity, but only to the
