![]() Like any good gift, reading can be overindulged. If only through gritted teeth, you can usually get me to concede the sinful temptations that bookaholism encourages. And of course she was right! (Thank goodness that levelheaded young woman later saw fit to become my wife.) One young woman in the group thought the question revealed more about the bookworm bubble I inhabited than any spiritual dilemma Christians commonly face. At some point, I asked whether anyone else ever felt guilty about devoting too much time to reading, given all the other callings God places on our lives. We were discussing a book about books (Tony Reinke’s Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading). Several years ago, I was part of a book club at church. Predictably enough, the teal portion depicts the overwhelming urge to answer with an emphatic “YES.” But then we confront the nagging, still small voice of conscience, whispering ever so delicately, “also YES, but in yellow.”Īs someone who owns a perfectly appropriate, not even slightly excessive, but still fairly large number of books, I know the feeling. Under the heading “Do I need more books?” sits a pie chart partitioned into a big slice (in teal) and a much smaller slice (in yellow), representing the dueling impulses in play. ![]() There’s a funny graphic making the social media rounds that confirms a truth universally acknowledged, at least by bibliophiles.
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