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The Meaning of Book Endorsements
Why buy a particular book? We answer that partly by finding who wants us to buy the book. We check the endorsement, which are found in...

Douglas Groothuis
Jul 19, 20224 min read
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Four Books Have Influenced Me in Profound Ways over Many Years
1. C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (many editions) Considered one of Lewis’s more difficult and less read works (at least in comparison...

Douglas Groothuis
Apr 29, 20223 min read
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Thoughts on the Second Edition of Christian Apologetics
The mail recently brought me two hardbacks of the second edition of my book, Christian Apologetics, published by InterVarsity Press. It...

Douglas Groothuis
Mar 28, 20223 min read
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Texts, Graphics, and Culture: On the Decline of Reading and Civilization
Inscripturation is part of being human, or at least it has been for a long time. We inscribe words on bark, papyri, codices, human skin...

Douglas Groothuis
Jan 29, 20203 min read
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On Audio Books and Paper Books
Let all things be done unto edifying. –1 Corinthians 14:26, KJV Each medium shapes the content it conveys. Or, more memorably, if...

Douglas Groothuis
Apr 11, 20195 min read
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Television: Agent of Truth Decay
This is excerpted from Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay(InterVarsity Press, 2000). First, television emphasizes the moving image over...

Douglas Groothuis
Mar 28, 20193 min read
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Who we Lost and What they Gave
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. -Psalm 115:16, KJV As one year turns into another, much is made of those we...

Douglas Groothuis
Jan 4, 20193 min read
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Who Reads? Why Read?
“I should read. But I don’t have time.” I heard this while browsing a bookstore (as I often do on Sunday afternoons). His expression was...

Douglas Groothuis
Dec 26, 20183 min read
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Philosophy of Technology in Six Ideas
As I prowl around bookstores, I find a gaggle of books on managing technology overload. One after another fall of the presses and make...

Douglas Groothuis
Dec 13, 20183 min read
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4 Reasons Why Leaders Should be Readers
Christian leaders need to direct and inspire through their knowledge and character. I here assume you are not reading romance novels or...

Douglas Groothuis
Apr 26, 20182 min read
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Book Review: Dynamics of Spiritual Life
Books grounded me during my early Christian life. Along with The God Who is There by Francis Schaffer, Pensées by Blaise Pascal, The...

Douglas Groothuis
Mar 1, 20184 min read
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The Book That No One Read
As the editor of a series of cultural critiques on compelling issues, Os Guinness wanted my work The Soul in Cyberspace to be “a shot...

Douglas Groothuis
Feb 1, 20187 min read
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Let Books be Books
Many books today seem afraid to rely on pure text. They are books that seem to be embarrassed to be what they are: books, that is,...

Douglas Groothuis
May 8, 20151 min read
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