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How to Read a Book - Inspectional Reading: Superficial Reading

'Superficial reading' is where you read right through the book without stopping, ignoring the parts that you don't understand, paying no attention ...

Book Review: Augustine on the Christian Life

One highlight of Bray’s work is that he doesn’t hide Augustine’s imperfections – Augustine was wrong and mislead in many areas – but Bray also does...

Book Review: Particular Redemption (John Hurrion)

John Elias wrote the preface to this publication, and declared: “The doctrine presented and defended here is of the greatest import. It contains th...

Manager's Message Winter 2018 Brochure

Greetings from all the staff here at Reformers Bookshop. We regularly pray for the Lord to work through the books that we send out across Australia...

How to Read a Book - Inspectional Reading Type 1: Skimming or Pre-reading

Here Adler comes to the first really practical advise about how to read a book. He advises the reader on how to pre-read a book. Before we go thro...

Book Review: Popes and Feminists

The Reformers taught women that all lawful occupations can be ‘holy’ when done unto the Lord. This freed women like Katharina Luther and Katherine ...

How to Read a Book - Elementary Reading

Perhaps most interesting in this chapter was the description Adler gives of the process a person goes through as they learn how to master elementar...

Reformers Recommends: Books for Teenagers

What I frequently hear from people is “there doesn’t seem to be many good books for teenagers”. At an age where teens are moving from childhood to ...

How to Read a Book - 4 Types of Reading

The next principle that Adler covers is the different levels of reading. He presents 4 levels: Elementary, Inspectional, Analytical and Syntopical.

Down Not Out - Full Interview with Chris Cipollone

Reformers Bookshop sat down with Chris Cipollone, author of Down Not Out, to talk about depression, anxiety and the difference Jesus makes.

Reformers Recommends: Great Christian Books for Men

We are emasculating our men. We are not teaching them what being a man is all about. And perhaps worse than that, in our current climate, the world...

When Christianity Meets Psychology by Chris Cipollone

Made in the image of God, even non-Christian psychologists will exhibit his wisdom with what they have learned about the brain which he has designe...