{"id":2236,"date":"2013-09-11T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2013-09-10T23:42:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T04:42:30","slug":"literatures-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"LITERATURE’S POWER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Years ago, I heard that theologian, J.I. Packer, reads\u00a0The Brothers Karamazov<\/em> every year. \u00a0I figured I should read it at least once. \u00a0Suffice it to say, there is a lot to think about in that big and important book. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I vividly recall driving across country after our honeymoon and my wife Doreen sharing about the profound impact of another Dostoyevsky classic, Crime and Punishment<\/em>. \u00a0So gripping was the book that Doreen started to feel sympathy for the criminal. \u00a0I am happy to report it did not lead her into a life of crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a four minute clip (HT Justin Taylor) from one of our wisest counselors. \u00a0In a short space he does a great job of describing what great writers can do for us:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2013\/09\/10\/what-fyodor-dostoyevsky-can-teach-us-about-the-christian-life\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Years ago, I heard that theologian, J.I. Packer, reads\u00a0The Brothers Karamazov every year. \u00a0I figured I should read it at least once. \u00a0Suffice it to say, there is a lot to think about in that big and important book. \u00a0 I vividly recall driving across country after our honeymoon and my wife Doreen sharing about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}