Kolby Kerr

Why I decided to shut down @faithful_reader until September:

It's sprawling, it's dense, it takes two-hundred pages to hook you. It's my favorite novel—deal with it.

Wherein I commend to you texts that are unfathomable artistic achievements. Enjoy!

There are sentences in this book that shine so brightly you can't look directly at the pages.

@drmoore Hi @drmoore, really appreciate your work helping pastors (and all believers) nurture a reading life. I've just started a site (@faithful_reader) to help Christians find fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that feeds them.

I’m often asked how and why I read the way that I do. I try to explain my approach to reading in this video.

Poetry is an entirely different genus of language. Without poetry, language is just a tool or vehicle, not a thing that matters in itself. I argue here why Christians especially should give poetry a chance:

In which I commend to you a Yale Divinity School poet raised by West Texas Baptists

In Till We Have Faces, Lewis traces the subtlety of idolatry, revealing how even our purest and most perfect loves, when not given first to God, bend themselves toward selfishness. Check out the full review on The Faithful Reader: thefaithfulreader.com/till-we-have-f…

...in which I argue Till We Have Faces is Narnia for grownups and you should read it.

I created @faithful_reader because I believe many Christians (and especially pastors) have a broken belief about what reading is and does.

Announcing a little side project of mine: @faithful_reader. A simple idea to help people of faith build a habit of sustained literary reading. Three book recs each month: fiction, poetry, nonfiction. Give us a follow, and check it out: thefaithfulreader.com

I remain convinced that digital habits is one of the most contextually relevant and important conversations for forming disciples.

Today, the President confirmed the decision to lower the United States’ #refugee ceiling to 30,000 people for FY19. World Relief grieves the impact this reduction will have on some of the world’s most vulnerable people. ➝ bit.ly/2BVWwJr

@TelosCollective I try to work in that fun fact about the pace of ocean floor spreading wherever I can. I didn't pull a 'B' in Natural Disasters in college just to keep that one on the sidelines!

Kierkegaard likens the work of love to nature itself, whose “vital forces keep on” even as we sleep. Rivers carve canyons, ocean floors spread at a fingernail’s pace. @KolbyKerr

buff.ly/2NZxMr0 - In a culture that measures personal value by our achievements, @KolbyKerr reconsiders the Christian call to love as a work of the Holy Spirit in which we accomplish nothing and yet are completely transformed.

Oh my. Most of you know of my love for ⁦@joshritter⁩ and now he gives us this one. Great songs do more than words. youtube.com/watch?v=b7CCsP…

What happens when things get a little too "real" in community? @KolbyKerr reflects on how to move through our idealized concept of community to love an imperfect church. buff.ly/2IhDgYb

In this week’s @Anglican_Pastor Collect Reflection, I write about my experience of ‘bubble wrap’ faith and learning the boldness to pray to participate in the adventure of God’s work in the world.

I’m evangelical. I’m a leader. So I guess I can consider myself included here.

@G_Flatt Ha! Baseball is baseball, my friend. A nice time to be a yankee fan.

I’m sorry for assimilating @KolbyKerr

Yankees vs Red Sox in my new hometown. Yankees with an excellent lead so far, including two home runs.