Thursday, December 18, 2008

Support your local library.

This morning I was in Stoke On Trent's City Library.  Just for somewhere quiet and warm to do a bit of reading and thinking.  I also thought that I would have  a quick look at the "Religion" section to see what it was like.  I wasn't really surprised to see that it was a bit sparse.  

But, we could change that.  Public libraries are there for the whole public, and if they don't hold the books that we might want to use then we only have ourselves to blame.  So,  I requested that the library get in a few books that I want to read for some thinking I'm doing on how men and boys engage (or don't engage) with church.  Next time you want to get hold of a book, or recommend one in church, why not see if the local library has it or if it could get hold of it for you.

There's even the possibility of going a bit further, you could give some good quality Christian books to your local library.  Speaking Volumes is a charity that specialises in enabling individuals and churches to give packs of a books on a variety of subjects, from a Christian perspective, to libraries and schools.  

Might make a novel Christmas gift project - see what I did there :-)

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