Frank Filocomo, “How One Group is Disrupting Isolation with Reading” (Front Porch Republic)

“This is a welcomed respite from today’s always-online culture. ‘I get so tired of just looking around on the train and seeing every single person with their eyes on their phone, it drives me crazy!’ Williams told me. ‘I try to shake up the subway in my day-to-day life by striking up conversations with other readers on the train. If I see someone sitting next to me with a book, I’ll say, “hey, book club!”’

“To create an event on this large a scale, though, was a much more challenging undertaking. Williams, however, determined to disrupt isolation head-on, was able to plan something truly remarkable.”

Michael Horton, “The Gospel Isn’t Good News Without Justification” (The Gospel Coalition)

“The gospel can’t be reduced to justification. Yet apart from this fact—our guilt imputed to Christ and his righteousness imputed to us—there’s no good news. When the justified hear the rest of the good news, they rejoice, but when these other blessings are meant to replace the problem of objective guilt before God, they become another gospel altogether.”

Trevin Wax, “Introducing ‘The Gospel Way Catechism’: A Tool for Spiritual Formation in a Secular Age” (The Gospel Coalition)

“The first time I heard Tim Keller talk about the need for counter-catechesis, it reframed everything for me. At a TGC colloquium in Louisville, Kentucky, he explained that catechesis has always been counter-catechesis. The Reformation-era catechisms weren’t just teaching doctrine; they were actively inoculating believers against the dominant Catholic alternative. They weren’t just building a Protestant worldview but dismantling competing ones.”

Paul Graham, “Good Writing” (paulgraham.com)

“You can’t simultaneously optimize two unrelated things; when you push one far enough, you always end up sacrificing the other. And yet no matter how hard I push, I never find myself having to choose between the sentence that sounds best and the one that expresses an idea best. If I did, it would be frivolous to care how sentences sound. But in practice it feels the opposite of frivolous. Fixing sentences that sound bad seems to help get the ideas right.”