Savvas Costi

There’s been much talk about the decline of reading. Here I respond to that essay from @NeilDotObrien on what we should do. Please give it a read. Link below:

'AI may make us efficient, but we’re being stunted in our growth as a result…Slow, difficult growth is better than efficient, easy stagnation or regression.’

“I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.” -Neil Postman

And Starmer reads the room yet again 🤦🏼‍♀️ I did not have one single email from any constituents supporting this stupid idea - and very very many against it.

Get electronics out of the classroom "from kindergarten to PhD."

@TrevinWax @TweetingThomas_ Looks great!

From the start, @TweetingThomas_ and I knew a version for children would need to follow. We wanted to help kids navigate the questions of our age—to meet the cultural challenges earlier and with understandable, theological vocabulary to answer them well. thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-w…

Justification gets you out of Egypt, but sanctification gets Egypt out of you.

"For he spoke, and it came to be..." (Ps. 33:9).

@BellaWallerstei So look beyond politics Bella. Here is a great place to start: andybannister.net/p/far-more-tha…🙂

Britain has had barely any real productivity growth for over a decade, wages flatlining against inflation, house prices now around 8x average earnings, welfare spending exploding and nearly 1 million young people not in work or education. Meanwhile we import everything, make almost nothing, have no serious energy resilience and are already falling behind in the AI race. And yet Westminster thinks another game of musical chairs will somehow fix the country. It’s totally pathetic. A political class obsessed with internal squabbles while ordinary people get poorer, younger generations lose hope and Britain drifts further into managed decline. I’ve never felt so disillusioned with politics

Neil is right about maintaining a posture of neutrality with some helpful suggestions on how to do this, but the other option is if you're going to present explicit political positions, then you have to keep it balanced as I argued here a few years back: @savvascosti/p-115473473" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@savvascosti/p…

@AJWTheology @JamesBejon Here! @ajwtheology" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@ajwtheology

@JamesBejon @SPCosti I couldn’t tell you if my life depended on it!

One of the reasons I've remained on twitter (yes I still call it that) is because people like @AJWTheology are active on it. I've just discovered he's on Substack, a much better platform! I can see myself using that more (with restrictions in place), and using this one less.

@AJWTheology Smart man like you will pick it up. 🙂

@SPCosti I’ll admit though: I have no idea how to use Substack.

‘It takes the whole Bible to read any part of the Bible.’ pp. 48-49.

Hopefully it's not the end of reading. @j_amesmarriott substack.com/home/post/p-19…

I’ve had limited and appreciated interaction here with @SPCosti. Reading this fine essay, recognizing names of people whose works have influenced my own thinking, confirms that he’s a kindred spirit. This is indeed reading that matters. open.substack.com/pub/savvascost…

@XianMind That's really kind. Yes, we're running the same track. Thank you Keith!

Thank you!

Why Reading Matters - by Savvas Costi - Savvas’s Substack substack.com/home/post/p-19…

There’s been much talk about the decline of reading. Here I respond to that essay from @NeilDotObrien on what we should do. Please give it a read. Link below:

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