Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, discussed the value of reading today at AlbertMohler.com. Reading is something of a passion for Mohler, as is evidenced by the surprising facts he includes in the post.
Al’s personal library, known as “The Bat Cave of Evangelical Christianity” is home to more than 30,000 volumes. It’s rumored that a person could pick any of those 30,000, hand it to Mohler, and and Al could promptly produce a detailed summary of the book (Need proof? Watch the first few minutes of this video).
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Brian Chesemore, one of the pastors at Covenant Life Church (Gaithersburg, MD), has begun a series on the Family Room Blog called “Building Your Library, One Book At a Time.”
Here’s the purpose behind the series:
Recently a mom of young children asked us for recommendations of theological books to read to strengthen her relationship with God and love for his word. We were so impressed with her desire and convinced of the benefit, that we’re going to build a family room library, one book at a time.
Brian has posted the first two in what should be a rather lengthy series.
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Keeping a personal library organized isn’t particularly difficult—just return the book to its previous spot. Working out and implementing an effective system, however, is a bit more of a task, especially for those who don’t enjoy organizing. There are multitudes of systems, degrees of organization, and styles of arrangement. Is there one good way to keep a library?
Tony, at The Shepherd’s Scrapbook, replied to just such a question from Noah. Noah’s looking for a system that isn’t overly complex, but one that’s specific enough to be helpful.
Tony has a few ideas for him, but the most prominent has to do not with shelves but spreadsheets—
The key to organizing topical and theological books is electronic. I find electronic databases critical because (as you mentioned) most books fit multiple categories.
Read both of Tony’s library posts: Part 1 | Part 2
What system have you developed for your library?
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FoxNews reports that 25% of US adults didn’t read a single book in 2006. Most of those who did read at least one book were women and senior citizens. The top books were religious works followed by popular fiction.
The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year . . . . Excluding those who had not read any, the usual number read was seven.
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Josh Sowin, who blogs at Fire & Knowledge, has a helpful post on reading over at the Desiring God blog.
Christians are people of the book: God purposely chose the medium of typography to deliver his revelation to us. In that book, we are commanded to love God with our hearts and our minds (Matthew 22:34-40). This gives Christians a clear command to use their intellects — to be, in other words, a kind of intellectual.
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