Practice the Christian Virtue of Reading Promiscuously
To read well is not to scour books for lessons on what to think. It’s to be formed in how to think.
The Author
Karen Swallow Prior is professor of English at Liberty University, research fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States. She is the author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life in Great Books, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me, and Fierce Convictions—The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist.
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