Books in brief: Tim Keller on the Psalms and Sven Birkert on the Internet

Last updated on: November 13, 2015 at 12:03 pm by Mission:Work

Books in brief: Tim Keller on the Psalms and Sven Birkert on the Internet 2015-11-10T16:34:09-05:00 Mission:Work

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We know you like lists of books around here, and an interesting one showed up on The Gospel Coalition a few days ago. Not all the books are in the faith/work/discipleship/culture-shaping orbit we center around on this blog, but there are several worth checking out, including a daily devotional by Tim Keller and some musings on what the Internet is doing to our brains:

Tim Keller, The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms (Viking)

This book is a daily devotional that takes the reader through every verse of the book of Psalms in 365 days. In one sense the psalms do not need to be made into a daily devotional—they are the divinely inspired devotional book…..

Sven Birkerts, Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age (Graywolf Press).

In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art―the very cultural activities that make us human. … In Changing the Subject, he examines the changes that he observes in himself and others―the distraction when reading on the screen; the loss of personal agency through reliance on GPS and one-stop information resources; an increasing acceptance of “hive” behaviors.

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