This is a conversation with Austin, Texas based minister, blogger and podcast host Shane Blackshear. We discuss the value of reading, the limitations of language, how engaging literature relates to essential spiritual disciplines and much more.

Show Notes

Shane Blackshear (http://www.shaneblackshear.com/) (https://twitter.com/beardonabike)

Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64023.Celebration_of_Discipline)

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr (http://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=16)

Will Schoder Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcRdUHUuBqU9uCsEuG39Nmg)

Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges (https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132)

Chris Hedges book talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EpeF1fcji0)

How to Think by Alan Jacobs (https://www.amazon.com/How-Think-Survival-Guide-World/dp/0451499603/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1563482429&sr=1-3)

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GQBOZRNI2OKN&keywords=scott+mccloud+understanding+comics&qid=1563482695&s=books&sprefix=scott+mcc%2Cstripbooks%2C193&sr=1-1)

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596435739/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3)

N.T. Wright (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/38932.N_T_Wright)

Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique Gilliard (https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Incarceration-Advocating-Justice-Restores/dp/0830845291/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=dominique+gilliard&qid=1563482915&s=books&sr=1-2)

The Character of Virtue by Stanley Hauerwas (https://www.amazon.com/Character-Virtue-Letters-Godson/dp/0802875793/ref=sr_1_1?crid=MGC2MJQNFI2N&keywords=stanley+hauerwas&qid=1563482960&s=books&sprefix=stanlet+hau%2Cstripbooks%2C688&sr=1-1)