Reading God’s Word in a 'post-literate' world

Karen Soole  |  Comment
Date posted:  17 Dec 2025
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Reading God’s Word in a 'post-literate' world

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As Christmas approaches, gift buying is underway. Shops are full, and atmospheric Christmas markets entice you with their beautiful, expensive, but ultimately unnecessary items. You return home with nothing - except perhaps a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie.

What to buy? Back in the day, the physical gift of music was an easy choice: a CD, a tape, or an LP, but now it's all accessed through streaming services. The other physical choice used to be a book, but has that disappeared too?

I am part of a reading group that is great fun; however, when we choose the books we read, we include this essential criterion: is it available on Audible?

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