A Christian Perspective on the Joys of Reading Reading has become a Lost art.
Glenda has been the featured speaker at women\'s conferences and at seminars for prison inmates..
She has authored over a thousand articles and several nonfiction books as well as the Matthew in the Middle fiction series.
Glenda Faye Mathes (BLS, University of Iowa) is a professional writer with a passion for literary excellence.
He is a frequent speaker at the Evangelical Theological Society\'s annual meetings and served as literary stylist for the English Standard Version Bible.
He has authored or edited over fifty books, including The Word of God in English and A Complete Handbook of Literary Forms in the Bible .
About author(s): Leland Ryken (PhD, University of Oregon) served as professor of English at Wheaton College for nearly fifty years.
Leland Ryken and Glenda Faye Mathes inspire a new generation to overcome the notion that reading is a duty and instead discover it as a delight.
Recovering the Lost Art of Reading addresses these issues by exploring the importance of reading in general as well as studying the Bible as literature, offering practical suggestions along the way.
Reading is in desperate need of recovery.
This is particularly problematic for Christians, as many find it difficult to read even the Bible consistently and attentively.
With smartphones offering us endless information with the tap of a finger, it\'s hard to view reading as anything less than a tedious and outdated endeavor.
A Christian Perspective on the Joys of Reading Reading has become a Lost art
