Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren have done us a tremendous favor in supplying us with several excellent rules for reading. They are as follows: Classify the book according to the kind and subject matter.State what the whole book is about with the upmost brevity.Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you … [Read more...] about How to Read a Book Better
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The Reading Pastor
"Let me share with you a realistic goal. There are too many pastors who never do any reading. That goal is too low. There are also seminaries that recommend that we must spend every morning in study. That goal is too high. We need a realistic goal, and I say to pastors that every pastor could manage one hour of reading a day. In addition we ought to manage a morning, afternoon … [Read more...] about The Reading Pastor