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How to Read a Book - Inspectional Reading Type 1: Skimming or Pre-reading

Here Adler comes to the first really practical advise about how to read a book. He advises the reader on how to pre-read a book. Before we go thro...

Book Review: Popes and Feminists

The Reformers taught women that all lawful occupations can be ‘holy’ when done unto the Lord. This freed women like Katharina Luther and Katherine ...

How to Read a Book - Elementary Reading

Perhaps most interesting in this chapter was the description Adler gives of the process a person goes through as they learn how to master elementar...

Reformers Recommends: Books for Teenagers

What I frequently hear from people is “there doesn’t seem to be many good books for teenagers”. At an age where teens are moving from childhood to ...

How to Read a Book - 4 Types of Reading

The next principle that Adler covers is the different levels of reading. He presents 4 levels: Elementary, Inspectional, Analytical and Syntopical.

Down Not Out - Full Interview with Chris Cipollone

Reformers Bookshop sat down with Chris Cipollone, author of Down Not Out, to talk about depression, anxiety and the difference Jesus makes.

Reformers Recommends: Great Christian Books for Men

We are emasculating our men. We are not teaching them what being a man is all about. And perhaps worse than that, in our current climate, the world...

When Christianity Meets Psychology by Chris Cipollone

Made in the image of God, even non-Christian psychologists will exhibit his wisdom with what they have learned about the brain which he has designe...

Book Review: The Gospel Comes With a House Key (Rosaria Butterfield)

I think many of us (if not all) yearn for a Christianity like the one Rosaria describes. The Gospel Comes with a House Key finishes with the questi...

How to Read a Book - The Original Communicators

The implication of all  this is that we really should be wanting to find the ‘original communicators’ of truth. And as our society documents more a...

How to Read a Book - Two Ways of Learning

This gives us a glimpse into what it means to read for understanding. It means to not only remember what the author is saying but to understand why...

How to Read a Book - Read to Increase in Understanding

Reading to increase in understanding occurs when you push yourself. When you pick up a book that contains concepts that are beyond you – that you n...