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Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer.”—G. W. F. Hegel. Whenever we reach for our phones or scan a newspaper to get “caught up,” we are being not merely informed but also formed. News consumption can shape our sense of belonging, how we judge the value of our lives, and even how our brains function. Christians mustn’t let the news replace prayer as Hegel envisioned, but...

instantiated in healthy habits. For, as authors such as Tish Harrison Warren and Justin Earley have recently argued, regardless of what we say we believe, it’s our daily habits that reveal and shape our actual theology.9 We are living through a time when technological, economic, and political forces are causing drastic upheavals in the news industry. These changes are provoking an outpouring of essays and books about how to save journalism and what the news industry should look like in a digital
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